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Escena de familia con fantasma / Julia Otxoa ; prólogo de Ángeles Encinar. (OCLC #865472923)

The record we ordered this book on did not have a full call number, just “PQ”. Fortunately there was a second record in OCLC created around the same time, not as full (no subjects, added entry for the author of the foreword, or traced series) but with a full call number.

The call number is good (class matches the author’s authority file, title cutter files nicely) so I added it to the fuller record, and recommended that they be merged.

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Lebbeus Woods is an archetype. (OCLC #871557316)

This is the longest “cover title” I’ve seen yet! I decided to only include it as a quoted note, as it was so different from the title that appears on the title page and spine.

This is a collection of reproductions from an architecture exhibition, so gets a class number (including first cutter) for the artist (NA737.W66) subarranged by table N6, which says to use A4 for reproductions. This is the second such book from that artist from 2013 that we have in our catalog; if I hadn’t checked, they’d end up with the same call number!

Typically when you have two titles about the same subject by the same author, the item number (cutter) should be adjusted to shelflist, but the N6 table does not allow it; in this case, the call number gets a small letter b after the year:

NA737.W66 A4 2013b

This one also had a surprise in its ISBN. When I scanned in the barcode on the back, it also had a small b at the end! The title page verso has the version without the ‘b’, but the publisher has already used the ISBN for another title, so maybe they needed a way to distinguish between them. I included the version with the b in an 020ǂz in case other catalogers scan it in looking for copy.

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Икота : мифологический персонаж в локальной традиции / Ольга Христофорова (OCLC #871437486)

This book about demonic possession (or “Demoniac Possession” in LCSH) has a title proper which also translates to “hiccups”. Though the two are linked, a bit of reading confirmed that the word had another specific meaning: the Slavic concept of “ikota” is similar to the Jewish “dybbuk”, both being spirits that possess and control people. (Hooray for subject cataloging to distinguish between the two!)

I am somewhat relieved that the book is about demons, because I wouldn’t know where to classify a non-fiction book primarily about hiccups in LC; maybe with other reflexes or spasms, or with the diaphragm? I searched OCLC and found only a few non-fiction works (none classed in LC); mostly I found folklore and juvenile fiction. With all due respect to the hiccupotamus, this seems like an oversight.

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Записки неохотника : неполное собрание текстов / Борис Ванталов. (OCLC #654857782)

This piece was forwarded to me for subject heading work when it was identified as possibly being literary criticism, possibly due to the Z in the second cutter of its existing call number: PG3489.3.A53 Z16 2008

This particular book appears primarily to be a collection of works of the author (mini-novels, essays, etc) so I would classify it “Separate works. By title” in Table P-PZ40, which is .xA61-.xZ458. (I could also see an argument for .A6, “Selected works. Selections”, but I don’t think any of the included texts had previous wide publication.) The romanized title starts “Zapiski” so second cutter is early in the Z’s.

That Z is often a good signal though; general literary criticism for an author with a single cutter does get second cutter .Z5-.Z999, so it is shelved after all of the author’s actual works.

There was some literary criticism included near the end of the book, so I added the subject heading anyway to aid in discovery.

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Gert Boon / Hans Ibelings. (OCLC #861955106)

This book about “one of the Netherlands’ ‘least known’ famous architects” had only a brief CIP record in OCLC, and even that had the distributor listed as the publisher. An over-narrow search could have missed that one! Now it’s upgraded to a full RDA record.

Another tricky bit on these architecture books is remembering to use the appropriate artist table (e.g. N6) when assigning an LC call number to reproductions/collections of an architect’s work.

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“Весь Херсон” в шаржах : Крученых и Тарабановского / Сергей Сухопаров. (OCLC #752741916)

Despite being a bit rare (copy 210 of 250), this book already had pretty good copy in OCLC, so I only needed to assign an LC call number. I probably could have gone a couple of ways with this.

Fully half of the book contains one-page descriptions of people in/from Kherson (Ukraine), with accompanying comics by Tarabanovskiĭ, the artist on the right. However, the largest single section of the book is about the author on the left, Kruchenykh, by whom my library already has a number of works. I classed the book with a Z cutter under Kruchenykh’s class number, where I think it will best serve my library’s patrons. The city and comic artist are accessible by subject headings.