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Symposium on the Orion Nebula to honor Henry Draper / edited by A.E. Glassgold, P.J. Huggins, and E.L. Schucking. (OCLC #8845640)

“What’s a Festschrift?” asked many of us when we first saw this fixed field in cataloging class. And after looking it up, “how often do you see those?” As it turns out, it’s somewhat unusual (0.2% of records in our catalog) but that just makes it a rare treat to get to change that fixed field, and often the conference publication fixed field at the same time:

    Fest: 1     Conf: 1

RDA also includes a relationship designator for specifying who is being hono(u)red in the Festschrift:

    700 1_ ǂa Draper, Henry, ǂd 1837-1882, ǂe honouree.
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Differential and difference equations with applications : contributions from the International Conference on Differential & Difference Equations and Applications / Sandra Pinelas, Michel Chipot, Zuzana Dosla, editors. (OCLC #829754700)

The title page says that the three people listed are “editors”, so which relator term to use? “editor”? “editor of compilation”?

This title is a conference proceedings (a Festschrift, even!), so consists mainly of papers, individual works with their own creators. The editors wrote the brief preface, and likely did some editing/formatting of the collected works, so they fit the definition of “editor of compilation”.

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Die Astronomische Gesellschaft 1863 – 2013 : Bilder und Geschichten aus 150 Jahren / herausgegeben von Dietrich Lemke. (OCLC #870898902)

This festschrift (!) about the history of a German astronomical society needed original cataloging because there was no English-language record for it, only German. That is, we needed a record where the transcribed elements (e.g. title, statement of responsibility) were still in German, but many recorded elements (e.g. pagination, bibliographical references) were in English.

From OCLC Bib Formats: “Historically in WorldCat the absence of subfield ‡b has indicated that English is the language of cataloging. OCLC now recommends always coding this element."  Also, 936 is no longer used to link parallel records.