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Delphi series. Volume II / featuring Joy Ladin, Jennifer Litt, & Tasha Cotter. (OCLC #964571488)

I was very conflicted about identifying the title proper of this book. What may be considered a series statement is most prominent on the cover, followed by the publisher (Blue Lyra Press), with the titles of the contained works in smaller print near the bottom. One could consider it a work with no collective title, but there is a main title page that does not include these individual titles at all, so I went with what was presented as a title and statement of responsibility on that source:

    245 10 ǂa Delphi series. ǂn Volume II / ǂc featuring
        Joy Ladin, Jennifer Litt, & Tasha Cotter.

I also included a variant title entry for the publisher, as its placement may cause it to be mistaken for a title:

    246 3_ ǂa Blue Lyra Press

The individual titles are in a contents note and in name/title added entries.

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East Austin stories [videorecording]. (OCLC #515199419)

In RDA, we can supply the date of publication from any available source. I could not find a date of publication in any of the preferred sources (same source as title proper, or anywhere else in the resource) so emailed the contact person listed on the publisher’s website. He quickly wrote back and supplied me with the information and was delighted to hear that we were adding the video to our collection.

As the date of publication was supplied from a source outside of the resource, I indicated that with square brackets:

264 _1 ǂa [Austin, Texas] : ǂb EastAustinStories.org, ǂc [2005]
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Abstracts. (OCLC #7352023)

We initially did not find copy for this volume, probably because it was difficult to determine (particularly from the cover) what might have been used as the title proper (Ti? 3rd International…? The Academy…?). The title page and spine suggested the simple title “Abstracts”, a search for which returned many records and needed significant refining.

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Epistle to white Christians / Fred D. Wentzel. (OCLC #1039631)

When cataloging, we look for the title on its preferred source of information (RDA) or chief source (AACR2) which for books is the title page. A cover or spine title may not be the authoritative title in the first place, but may also lose letters when damaged. Though the spine title on this volume is technically different from the one on the title page, I chose not to add it in a 246 18.