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The Hasidim : mystical adventures and ecstatics / Anne N. Lowenkopf. (OCLC #898652)

This volume appeared on the problem cataloging shelf, despite having had a good DLC record since 1974. How did we not spot it?

The volume has a typo on its title page: it says “mystical adventures”, where the cover and title page verso both refer to “mystical adventureRs”. This inconsistency was represented in the DLC record in the 245ǂb as:

    mystical adventure[r]s and ecstatics

While this is understandable to a person reading from a catalog card, and would likely not cause that card to be differently sorted, it’s not great for an online catalog, in which a search for “mystical adventures” would not (and did not) retrieve this record.

RDA 1.7.9 on Inaccuracies in elements to be transcribed says to transcribe any inaccuracy as it appears on the piece, unless the element has instructions to the contrary. RDA 2.3.1.4 on Recording titles only provides an exception for inaccuracies in titles of serials or integrating resources, so for this monograph, we would only transcribe the inaccuracy:

245 14 ǂa The Hasidim : ǂb mystical adventures and ecstatics / ǂc Anne N. Lowenkopf.

with the corrected spelling included as a variant title:

246 34 ǂa Hasidim : ǂb mystical adventurers and ecstatics

Shout-out to OCLC’s GLIMIR feature for implying, while we were editing a minimal record with just one holding (but which had the title-page-version of the title), that there was a very similar record with over a hundred!

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The hunger games. Mockingjay / Lionsgate presents ; a Color Force/Lionsgate production ; produced by Nina Jacobson, Jon Kilik ; screenplay by Peter Craig and Danny Strong ; adaptation by Suzanne Collins ; directed by Francis Lawrence. (OCLC #961480896)

OLAC’s Best Practices for Cataloging DVD-Video and Blu-ray Discs Using RDA and MARC21 indicate that widescreen presentation of a DVD may be recorded as an edition statement when it is presented as such:

    250 __ $a Widescreen edition.

Regardless of whether it appears as an edition statement, it should also be recorded in a 500 note:

    500 __ $a Wide screen (2.4:1).

As many fields that we used to record as free-text in a 538 note now are recorded in specific fields (like 344 for sound characteristics, 346 for video characteristics), it is tempting to put this information into 345 (Projection Characteristics of Moving Image) which has a subfield for presentation format, but this should not be done. This field is only for use with actual motion picture film, and should not be used for DVDs.

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The October 18, 2016 release of RDA Toolkit includes (among others) the following change to RDA 7.15.1.1 (scope of Illustrative content):

Tables containing only words and/or numerical data are excluded, not considered as
illustrative content. Disregard illustrated title pages, etc., and minor illustrations. 

On the RDA-L listserv, reactions to this change seem mixed. Some appreciate RDA not overstepping (a library might consider a book illustrated when it has an illustrated title page) and others appreciate the guidance this rule has given in the past, anticipating questions about such illustrations from new catalogers.

Illustrative Matter is not a core element in RDA. Even LC PCC-PS only considers it a core element for resources intended for children. So we might consider why we record this element. If someone is looking for a book about musicians, and only wants an illustrated book, is it helpful to include among those results a book that has no illustrations except for a Pelican logo? Or should we only include books with illustrations that supplement the pages’ informative content, or guide the story?

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Oxidative stress and biomaterials / edited by Thomas Dziubla and D. Allan Butterfield. (OCLC #938383040)

We found brief copy for this title in OCLC, and upgraded it to RDA. One change we made was converting the 260 field to a pair of 264s.

The 260 field may be used to record places, dates, and parties responsible for the publication, distribution, and manufacture of the title, as well as copyright information. This field may be used in RDA records, though several elements map to the same subfields; the RDA toolkit’s MARC Bibliographic to RDA Mapping says that ǂa, ǂb are for publication and distribution information, and ǂe, ǂf are for production and manufacture information.

The 264 field may also be used to record the data above, but in a more granular/specific way: the second indicator specifies whether its 264 field is about production (0), publication (1), distribution (2), manufacture (3), or is a copyright date (4).

While upgrading records to RDA, I always convert existing 260s to 264s to record the most specific information I can while I have the piece in hand, using multiple fields if needed:

    264 _1 ǂa Amsterdam : ǂb Elsevier Academic Press, ǂc [2016]
    264 _4 ǂc ©2016
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You’ve come a long way, baby : women, politics, and popular culture / edited by Lilly J. Goren. (OCLC #642464862)

I’d never considered contractions like “you’ve” to warrant assigning a variant title (RDA 2.3.6) with the contraction expanded, as has been done in this record: 

    245 00 ǂa You've come a long way, baby : ǂb women,
        politics, and popular culture / ǂc edited by Lilly 
        J. Goren.
    246 3_ ǂa You have come a long way, baby

That said, I don’t see an RDA rule encouraging variant titles for spelling out numerals or abbreviations. Maybe they are generally referenced under c, “assigned by the creator or by previous owners or custodians of the resource”.

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Breathing underwater / Lisa Davidson and Ralph Petty. (OCLC #921863615)

A book of text having illustrations is always sufficient to justify an additional content type of still image:

    336 __ ǂa still image ǂb sti ǂ2 rdacontent
    336 __ ǂa text ǂb txt ǂ2 rdacontent

but it makes sense when those illustrations are a substantial part of the content, to the point that the artist is listed jointly as a creator in the statement of responsibility. We can also include an access point for the artist and designate them as such so that respective roles are clear:

    100 1_ ǂa Davidson, Lisa, ǂd 1955- ǂe author.
    700 1_ ǂa Petty, Ralph, ǂe artist.
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Highlights from the August release of RDA Toolkit

RDA has always allowed use of “another concise term” (RDA I.1) as a relationship designator if there is no sufficiently specific term on the included lists, but I’m pleased to see so many new ones being added to that official list. For example, this month:

Relationship Designators for Creators

remix artist – A person, family, or corporate body responsible for creating an audio work by manipulating, recombining, mixing, and reproducing previously recorded sounds. Remixing activities that do not substantially change the nature and content of the original work, and mixing recorded tracks together to appear as one continuous track are excluded. See also DJ; mixing engineer.

Relationship Designators for Contributors

DJ – A person, family, or corporate body who mixes recorded tracks together during a live performance or in a recording studio to appear as one continuous track. Remixing activities that substantially change the nature and content of the original work, resulting in a new work, and mixing and assembling the multiple tracks of a recording are excluded. See also mixing engineer, remix artist.

dubbing director – A person, family, or corporate body responsible for the general management and supervision of the process of adding new dialogue or other sounds to complete the sound track for an expression.

music programmer – A person, family, or corporate body contributing to an expression of a musical work by using electronic audio devices and/or computer software to generate sounds. The creation of a new musical work is excluded. See also composer.

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New Orleans street map : features full street index, schools, shopping malls ; included Gretna, Harahan, Kenner … orientation map. (OCLC #881472331)

Due to recent staffing changes and re-organization, our map cataloger is now part of my cataloging and metadata group. I am beyond delighted! She’s great, and map cataloging problems are wily ones.

This map appears to have two copyright statements from different corporate bodies, and different dates. The cover lists Rand McNally ©2013, and the statement below the legend has the publisher GM Johnson & Associates ©2014.

RDA 2.11.1.3 on Copyright Dates says that when multiple copyright dates apply to a single aspect (and I don’t have any evidence that they are for specific aspects) to record only the latest copyright date. Stonybrook’s guide even mentions this case specifically for maps. We also included both firms as publishers in a single 264 field:

    264 _1 ǂa [Burnaby, B.C.] : ǂb GM Johnson & Associates ;
        ǂa Chicago, IL : ǂb Rand McNally, ǂc [2014]

Library of Congress’s training materials say it would be incorrect to use separate 264s for this.

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Chemical disinfectants and antiseptics : quantitative suspension test for the evaluation of bactericidal activity of chemical disinfectants and antiseptics used in food, industrial, domestic and institutional areas : test method and requirements (phase 2, step 1) / BSI. (OCLC #655883626)

Existing records like this one are why numerical statistics for cataloging, even copy cataloging, are difficult to compare. I am 99% sure that the piece I have in hand is the same as (or similar enough to) the one cataloged here, though it had almost no information.

The master record in OCLC is now complete and upgraded to RDA, and marked as copy cataloging in my statistics.

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Tentative specification for high strength structural steel / American Society for Testing and Materials. (OCLC #954341371)

RDA 2.3.6 on Variant Titles lists a number of cases where you might include this element in your record, including:

f) part of a title (e.g., an alternative title or a section title recorded as part of the title proper)

When a portion of the title is in a different font, and could possibly be considered the title, I include that part as a title added entry:

    246 30 ǂa High strength structural steel

Second indicator 0 is for title added entries that are a portion of the title.