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Creating meaningful stuff : radical design / Johan van Mol and Peter Van Riet. (OCLC #959243902)

We struggled to decide on the title for this book. Is it “Create meaningful stuff”? Or “Radical design”?

Both titles are on the cover. Both are on the spine.

There is something like a title page which has “Radical Design” only, but it has no other title page features (like authors), and may just be decorative, as it is that same pattern. On the publisher web site, the page with a photo of the book says “In Radical Design, we want to contribute to this important economic transition.” Maybe they’re referring to their workshop series?

On the back of the book, reviewers call it “Create Meaningful Stuff”, and near the back, the authors say “So we come to the end of ‘Create meaningful stuff’”. I could find no evidence that Radical Design is a series with other parts.

We changed our minds a few times, but eventually settled on this:

    245 10 ǂa Create meaningful stuff : ǂb radical design /
        ǂc Johan van Mol and Peter Van Riet.

including this variant title for anyone who chose differently:

    246 30 ǂa Radical design

I’m relieved that the call number depends on the author as main entry instead of the title, so if we change our minds again, we won’t have to re-label.

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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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gogol-chrome:

I’m serving you “I’m the only cataloger not on vacation this week and all the materials are suddenly in Russian” realness. (at Lancaster, Pennsylvania)

I love seeing other people’s cataloging problems!

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The unreliable bestiary : an ark of stories about animals, our relationships with them, & the world they inhabit / Deke Weaver. (OCLC #957129744)

We got several of these DVDs in our fine arts library, parts of the Unreliable bestiary, a series of performances about endangered species and their habitats, one for each letter of the alphabet. So far, we had wolf, bear, elephant.

So how to catalog? One record per animal? All together as a set? As a serial?

We felt that not much would be gained by cataloging the pieces on individual records; our cataloger in the Fine Arts library said their patrons would be most interested in knowing about the performances as a group (and we found it less likely that researchers on wolves, bears, elephants would benefit from subject access for their particular animals), so we decided to catalog them together. As the series has a pre-determined (if far-off) ending, we don’t consider this a serial, and cataloged the works as a set.

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That’s some good metadata from UK Libraries Special Collections Research Center! (Thanks, Deirdre!)

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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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Shvedskie poėty : perevody i varianty / Ilʹi︠a︡ Kutik. (OCLC #52402638)

When I was talking about Google Translate, did I mention that the app has an augmented reality feature? That is, when you point your camera toward a book, it will translate and show the text where it appears on the book! It’s not only nice for extracting titles, but also for skimming through a table of contents or a random page to get an idea of the content.

I can also imagine this being good for selectors; do we want a book of Swedish poetry translated into Russian? (we do!)

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Buffalo Trace Area Development District : open space and recreation plan / by Buffalo Trace Area Development District. (OCLC #729407216) and others

When this small batch of state documents showed up in cataloging, I thought it would make a nice project for our new graduate assistant in Cataloging and Database Integrity. Maybe a nice mix of copy and original cataloging? Some subject cataloging, and classification focused on one small part of the schedule?

As it turned out, every single volume was a duplicate of one already in the collection; for many of them, we already have two copies! Oh well, into the gifts process they go…

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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.