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動物のお医者さん / ǂc 佐々木倫子. (OCLC #881816845)

That ad strip around the bottom of the book is called an “obi” (same word used for kimono sash). On this volume, it covers up a charming feature: the rooster has a soccer ball! (We’ll remove the obi before adding the mylar cover).

The author of this series is Sasaki Noriko, who seems to be a different person than “Sasaki, Noriko” (ethnology scholar) and “Sasaki, Noriko (Soprano)”, so I needed a different authorized access point. I checked VIAF and found a heading for her which matches the information I found in her Wikipedia article.

I initially thought about using an occupation in the heading, like “Sasaki, Noriko (Manga artist)” which might be easier to select at a glance, but RDA 9.19.1.5 says to only use this if date of birth/death or fuller form are not available.

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日本の村ー須恵村 / ジョン・F.エンブリー著 ; 植村元覚訳 = Suye mura : a Japanese village / by John F. Embree. (OCLC #881293935)

The translator of this book died in 1997, but this is not reflected in the authorized access point:

    Uemura, Motokaku, 1916-

This is not unusual. RDA 9.19.1.3 says about adding dates to access points:

    Add the date of birth and/or date of death if needed to
    distinguish one access point from another.

LC-PCC practice for new authority records is to add a date of birth and/or date of death to new authority records, even if not needed to distinguish between access points, but not necessarily to add them to existing records (though the option is there).

The VIAF cluster shows that some vocabularies (Japan’s National Diet Library, ISNI) have added the death date. When our catalogs have more of a “things not strings” model and store URIs for access points (rather than the full text of the authorized access point), such changes will be less costly to make.

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Annual report of Walker D. Hines, Director General of Railroads, 1919. Northwestern Region / R.H. Aishton, regional director. (OCLC #752789209)

Even adopting RDA’s “take what you see” attitude, I had a hard time determining who the author of this document was: R.H. Aishton? Walker D. Hines?

There are records for many similar documents in OCLC, all “Annual report of Walker D. Hines” from various regions and departments with their own directors, and each with “United States Railroad Administration” as the main entry. I stuck with this pattern, putting the administration in a 110, and with no access point for Walker D. Hines; I could not identify a role for him, other than the named representative of that body. I put the regional director in a 700 as a “compiler” of the document’s data.

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La inmutabilidad divina en el contexto de la idea de Dios de la Patrística incipiente / Ana Carrasco Romero. (OCLC #52599176)

RDA 7.9.1.3 details which elements should be recorded when cataloging a dissertation or thesis (degree, institution, year) but does not specify MARC fields or punctuation.

The LC-PCC PS for that rule gives a preference for recording these elements in separate subfields of 502, with no surrounding punctuation:

502 __ ǂb Ph. D. ǂc University of Toronto ǂd 1974

It also says not to routinely convert such notes from AACR2-style, so I left this one as is when upgrading the record:

502 __ ǂa Thesis (doctoral)--Pontificia universitas sanctae crucis,
  1995.
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Le tsunami numérique : éducation, tout va changer! Êtes-vous prêts? / Emmanuel Davidenkoff. (OCLC #880358053)

The LC-PCC PS for RDA 25.1.1.13 (describing the formatting for contents notes) says to omit chapter and section numbering in that note. This would have been a bit odd in this book, whose first few chapters are:

  • 1. Machines versus profs, la guerre des mondes
  • 2. MOOC story
  • 3… D

Chapter 3 is about 3D printers, so the chapter heading is formatted slightly differently, with the chapter title including the chapter number.

To keep things simple and clear, I mostly followed the PS but recorded the odd chapter title as it was likely intended:

505 0_ ǂa Machines versus profs, la guerre des mondes -- MOOC
  story -- 3... D -- Design or decline -- Coopération versus
  sélection -- Le marché mondial des talents -- Imagine -- L'école
  et le syndrome Kodak -- Chronique d'une privatisation annoncée --
  L'innovation, un arte povera -- Du marché scolaire à la
  marchandisation de l'école.
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Yield gains in major U.S. field crops / Stephen Smith, Brian Diers, James Specht, and Brett Carver, editors. (OCLC #880168370)

A book containing multiple chapters may be considered a collection of separate works, with a whole-part or “contains” relationship. The rules for describing this relationship in RDA are in Chapter 25, Related Works. In general this can be recorded with a statement like:

Contains: Barley -- Cotton -- Cool-season forages.

As we are encoding the record in MARC, the “Contains:” phrase is not needed; it is specified by the first indicator of the 505. More details can be found in the LC-PCC PS for RDA 25.1.1.3.

Though recording this relationship is not required, I did not find doing so for this book burdensome, and the resulting statement was dense with helpful keywords:

505 0_ ǂa Barley -- Cotton -- Cool-season forages -- Lettuce
  and spinach -- Edible grain legumes -- Maize -- Peanut -- Potato
  -- Rangeland and warm-season forage grasses -- Rice -- Sorghum --
  Soybean -- Sugarbeet -- Sugarcane -- Sunflower -- Wheat.
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Los reyes del Grial / Margarita Torres Sevilla, José Miguel Ortega del Río ; edición de María Robledano. (OCLC #878689024)

Only the first statement of responsibility is core in RDA, so we could have chosen to omit “edición de María Robledano”.

A statement of responsibility listing more than one person (such as “Margarita Torres Sevilla, José Miguel Ortega del Río”) is recorded as a single statement. There is an optional omission rule which says that if a statement includes more than three (!) people, you may omit some of them and record a summarized version, such as:

edited by Bob Smith, Jon Jones [and two others]

Both LC-PCC PS and NLA PS say to generally not omit names.

When recording relationships between people and resources (for example, via main or added entries in a MARC record), only the first creator (or someone used to create the AAP) is required; I chose to record the relationship for the second creator (in a 700) as well.

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Antología de la poesía oral-traumática, cósmica y esquizofrénica de Enrique Valle / por Fredo Arias de la Canal. (OCLC #879577035)

I initially found a Spanish-language record for this title, and was happy to see that it was an RDA record with Spanish-language terms in 33X ( texto / no mediado / volumen ). The Spanish translation of RDA is not yet available in RDA toolkit, so I peeked into the French version. It lists the same carrier types (using French terms) and they have the same codes as the English terms! This says great things for international sharing of RDA records.

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Ricciotti, architect / collected works under the direction of Francis Rambert. (OCLC #879598494)

Coming from a math background, I often read “collected works” as meaning “complete works”; for this title, it seems to mean collected as in gathered/selected for a particular exhibition, so I did not use a conventional collective title, only the title proper.

I also considered “collected works” to be a noun phrase that is part of the statement of responsibility, rather than other title information.

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A road to change : Harlan County / by Kim Childers. (OCLC #879573322)

This book has slightly odd pagination: the blank page before the title page is marked “Page 1”, the title page is marked “Page 3” and no other pages have numbers. I considered this a change in the form of numbering, so ignored those first few numbered pages by RDA 3.4.5.4, recording the extent as:

1 volume (unpaged)

There is a DVD by this same company with similar content, based on the same research, and considered complementary. I recorded this as:

787 08 ǂi Complemented by (work): ǂa Harlan County : a road to change.

with the exact relationship described in a note.