Orientalia. (OCLC #2670229)
What’s going on with (our gift copy of?) this journal?
Many issues have in their table of contents a bibliography with separate pagination (decorated by *) but we don’t have those pages. They are available from JSTOR though, so I know they exist.
Were these published in a separate volume, that the previous owner just chose not to bind in there?
Mappa mundi = Studia in honorem Jaroslavi Daškevyč septuagenario dedicata : zbirnyk naukovykh prat︠s︡ʹ na poshanu I︠A︡roslava Dashkevycha z nahody ĭoho 70-richchi︠a︡ / [redakt︠s︡iĭna kolehii︠a︡, Ihor Hyrych and others]. (OCLC #39024881)
This book includes materials in many languages, as indicated in the 546:
546 __ ǂa Predominately in Ukrainian with articles
also in English, French, German, Polish, and Russian.
Its Lang fixed field is encoded for Ukrainian (as that is the predominant language) but other languages are encoded in MARC 041. The old standard for this field was to concatenate all of the three letter codes in one subfield, like:
041 0_ ǂa ukrengfregerpolrus
But now each language gets its own subfield:
041 0_ ǂa ukr ǂa eng ǂa fre ǂa ger ǂa pol ǂa rus
A history of Ukrainian industry / Oleksander Ohloblyn ; with an editor’s pref., a retrospect by the author and indices. (OCLC #475510)
This volume includes the content of three titles; the first and third are in Russian, and the second is in Ukrainian. The title and editor’s preface are in English.
The Lang MARC fixed field should contain the code for the predominant language of the piece, excluding prefaces, introductions, forewords, and appendices. This DLC record created in 1973 has it coded as English:
Lang: eng
If I were cataloging this, I would have encoded it as Russian. Is this an old standard?
Ñahui : el rostro del Ecuador : serie audiovisual sobre los pueblos indígenas y negros del ecuador / Fundación ARIG ; dirección: Igor Guayasamin, Lilian Granda. (OCLC #919504054)
This 22 volume set has its container information (titles, summaries) all in Spanish, but for moving image materials we record the main language based on the sound track. This set includes videos in many languages (including Spanish, but also Awa pit, Kichwa, Paicoca, Cha’palaa, Huao terero, Shuar, A’ingae, and Tsafiki), so I encoded the soundtrack as having multiple languages:
Lang: mul
I encoded the information about container and subtitles in the 041:
041 0_ ǂa mul ǂb spa ǂj eng ǂj fre ǂj spa
with a free text version in the language note:
546 __ ǂa Soundtrack in multiple languages with optional subtitles in Spanish, English or French. Summaries in Spanish.
And quiet flows the vodka, or, When Pushkin comes to shove : the curmudgeon’s guide to Russian literature and culture, with the devil’s dictionary of received ideas, alphabetical reflection on the loathsomeness of Russia, American Academia, and humanity in general / Alicia Chudo ; edited by Andrew Sobesednikov. (OCLC #43540075)
The LC-PCC PS for RDA 2.3.6.3 on Recording Variant Titles says: For titles proper that contain an “alternative title,” insure title access to the complete title proper (MARC field 245); to the first part of the title proper up to the word “or” or its equivalent in another language that signals an alternative title (MARC field 246); and to the part following the word “or” or its equivalent in another language (MARC field 246).“ For this title, this appears as:
245 10 ǂa And quiet flows the vodka, or, When Pushkin comes to
shove : ǂb the curmudgeon's guide to Russian literature and
culture, with the devil's dictionary of received ideas,
alphabetical reflection on the loathsomeness of Russia, American
Academia, and humanity in general / ǂc Alicia Chudo ; edited by
Andrew Sobesednikov.
246 30 ǂa And quiet flows the vodka
246 30 ǂa When Pushkin comes to shove
ISBD punctuation for the title proper is described in ISBD 1.1.3.4
The odyssey of life. The ultimate journey [videorecording] / photographed by Lennart Nilsson ; written by Thomas Friedman ; produced by Wanngärd AB and Bo G. Erikson Productions, a co-production between Swedish Television … [et al.]. (OCLC #80285161)
OLAC’s Best Practices for Cataloging DVD-Video and Blu-ray Discs Using RDA and MARC21 says that the narrator of a video should be recorded in the 511 field with first indicator 0 (so as not to generator a display constant “Cast:”):
511 0_ ǂa Narrated by David Ogden Stiers.
An access point may also be added, with the appropriate relationship designator:
700 1_ ǂa Stiers, David Ogden, ǂe narrator.
Issues in bilingualism and biculturalism : a Hong Kong case study / David C.S. Li. (OCLC #33820211)
This volume (and about 20 others) were due back to the library in 1999, but were just returned this week! They had long since been removed from the catalog (following our lost/missing books policy) so we are treating them as gifts to the library.
The branch where this volume was housed has recently done some aggressive weeding and other collection development, so we will make these volumes available to the selector, so she can choose whether we want to retain it.
Latinoi︠a︡zychnye istochniki po istorii Drevneĭ Rusi. Germanii︠a︡ / [sostavlenie, perevod, kommentariĭ M.B. Sverdlova ; otvetstvennye redaktory, A.D. Li︠u︡blinskai︠a︡, A.K. Gavrilov]. (OCLC #21908784)
Using a specific date to limit your search may be quick, but may make limit your search too strongly. If your title is a later part of a set (which may not be obvious), the date on the title page may not be the same as the date on the set record (probably the date of its first volume). For example, this volume had 1990 on its title page, but is a volume of a set whose publication started in 1989.
If you need to narrow by date, try starting with a date range, like:
1980-1990
Moravsko slikarstvo. : La peinture de lÉ̕cole de la Morava / Koncepcija i realizacija izložbe: Zdenka Živković [i dr.] Vojislav J. Đurić: Zidno slikarstvo Moravske škole. (OCLC #18590741)
This title is in Serbo-Croatian (Cyrillic) and French, as indicated in this note:
546 __ ǂa In Serbo-Croatian (Cyrillic) and French.
There is no MARC language code for Serbo-Croatian, but there are codes for its standard forms Serbian (srp), Croatian (hrv), and Bosnian (bos). This record uses the code for Serbian
Lang: srp
which makes sense, as it was published out of Belgrade.
Drevnerusskoe pevcheskoe iskusstvo / N. Uspenskiĭ. (OCLC #9723849)
Be wary of drawings that appear near the title – is that a decoration, or a decorative first letter?
In this case, the man’s throne is large letter Д which makes the first word “drevnerusskoe” not “revnerusskoe”, which may affect searching for copy cataloging.