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Post date November 17, 2015
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How & why Freemasonry came to Kentucky : the backstory / John Bizzack, Ph.D. (OCLC #929070933)

Our graduate assistant has started adding original records to OCLC. I’m so proud!

I particularly like her idea to add that second variant title, as neither she nor I saw the background-colored ampersand at first:

245 10 ǂa How & why Freemasonry came to Kentucky : ǂb the 
    backstory / ǂc John Bizzack, Ph.D.
246 3_ ǂa How and why Freemasonry came to Kentucky
246 3_ ǂa How why Freemasonry came to Kentucky

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Post author By zemkat
Post date November 16, 2015
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Latina/os and World War II : mobility, agency, and ideology / edited by Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez and B.V. Olguín. (OCLC #861496984)

Though I don’t know a specific RDA rule recommending it, I like this cataloger’s choice of variant titles. The title proper is transcribed from the piece:

245 00 ǂa Latina/os and World War II : ǂb mobility, agency,
    and ideology / ǂc edited by Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez and
    B.V. Olguín.

But two additional variant titles are given to help with discovery:

246 3 ǂa Latinas and World War II
246 3 ǂa Latinos and World War II

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Post author By zemkat
Post date November 13, 2015
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Historia natural de los cuentos de miedo : con referencia a géneros fronterizos / Rafael Llopis. (OCLC #857809392)

Edition statements need not be numbered; they may just be descriptive. In either case, according to RDA 2.5 on Edition Statements, they should be transcribed as they appear on the piece:

250 __ Nueva edición reducida y mejorada.

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Post author By zemkat
Post date November 12, 2015
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Petroleum, past, present & future / by Per K. Frolich. (OCLC #6283891)

Throwback Thursday! Let’s look at some catalog cards.

These two cards represent the same book, and are identical except for the heading at the top of the card: the top card is a title card (its heading is the book’s title) and the bottom card is a subject card (its heading is the LCSH subject heading for Petroleum. In this case they are so similar that the two cards were filed right next to each other in our card catalog, but normally they could be quite far apart; the author card, for example, would be in an F drawer near all the other Frolichs.

Subject cards can usually be distinguished from title cards by some decoration on their heading, such as being in all caps (like this example) or being printed in red ink.

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Post author By zemkat
Post date November 10, 2015
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Летопись по воскресенскому списку, Санкт петербург, Тип. Е. Пратса, 1856-1859. (OCLC #10600837)

I only have volume 2 of this set, and it doesn’t have its own title page; it has a table of contents which apparently covers the set (pagination: v, 1-301), and then starts with the content on page 71.

Fortunately, pages had a title “Воскресенская летопись” on the top of each page which was not the main title of the set, but was included in the record:

246 37 ǂa Воскресенская летопись

(second indicator 7 is for “running title”) so was helpful in finding a matching record!

I never did sort out what the “M&K” on the spine stood for.

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Post author By zemkat
Post date November 6, 2015
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Windows file system troubleshooting / Mike Halsey, MVP, Andrew Bettany, MVP. (OCLC #915033915)

By the time this volume arrived at my desk for cataloging, it was already barcoded on the upper left cover, covering the only place that one of the series statements appeared! I found the title on Amazon.com, and was able to confirm the series statement there:

490 1_ ǂa The expert's voice in Microsoft Windows
830 _0 ǂa Expert's voice in Microsoft Windows.

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Post author By zemkat
Post date November 5, 2015
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Dukhovnye stikhi starinnye. (OCLC #923383989)

We received two gift volumes that have identical title pages (without much metadata), and so extremely similar description:

245 00 ǂa Dukhovnye stikhi starinnye.
264 _1 ǂa [Place of publication not identified] : ǂb [publisher 
    not identified], ǂc [between 1950 and 2015?]

but different content beyond that.

They have slightly different numbers of pages, so copy catalogers with similar pieces should be able to determine which record to choose. The page numbers are in Church Slavic though, so I wish them luck!

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Post author By zemkat
Post date November 4, 2015
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Повести о Куликовской битве / изд. подготовили М.Н. Тихомиров, В.Ф. Ржига, Л.А. Дмитриев. (OCLC #2728286)

RDA 3.4.5.5 on Misleading numbering describes cases where the numbering on the last page does not represent the total number in that sequence, and says not to correct it unless it gives a completely false impression of the extent of the resource. For example, this volume’s last page has the page number misprinted, so the extent should be recorded as:

51, that is, 511 pages

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Post author By zemkat
Post date November 3, 2015
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Istorii︠a︡ odnoĭ knigi : Vi︠a︡tka i “ne-sovremennostʹ” v russkoĭ kulʹture petrovskogo vremeni / D.K. Uo. (OCLC #52977300)

When American authors write books in different languages (and alphabets), their name may appear on the piece in a different form, which is what is transcribed into the statement of responsibility:

245 10 ǂa Istorii︠a︡ odnoĭ knigi :ǂb Vi︠a︡tka i "ne-sovremennostʹ" v russkoĭ kulʹture
     petrovskogo vremeni / ǂc D.K. Uo.

The more common (authorized) form of the author’s name is also recorded as an access point:

100 1_ ǂa Waugh, Daniel Clarke.

At the BIBFRAME meeting, we discussed: why do we do both a transcribed version and a link to an access point for only some fields (title, author, subject) and not others (place of publication, publisher). My theory is that it is habit: in card catalogs, we didn’t have “publisher” cards, so there was no reason to record what would be a “heading” for those cards. Would those headings/links be useful now?

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Post author By zemkat
Post date November 2, 2015
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Do I look skinny in this house? : how to feel great in your home using design psychology / Kelli Ellis. (OCLC #871333825)

Last week I attended the NOTSL meeting Don’t Be Afraid of the Big, Bad BIBFRAME (Or Linked Data!).

While looking at the BIBFRAME editor, we discussed the decision to consider the Library of Congress Call Number to be associated with the Instance, but the Dewey Decimal Classification Number to be associated with the Work. I had not made that distinction before, that an LC call number was intended to be a unique shelving location, as in:

050 _4 ǂa NK2113 ǂb .E45 2014

where the Dewey number recorded is typically a non-unique subject classification of the work, as in:

082 04 ǂa 747 ǂ2 23

What do you think?

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