Legislation on foreign relations through … / Committee on Foreign Relations, Committee on International Relations. (OCLC #3700343)
When cataloging serials already in the collection, we check surrounding areas on the shelf to make sure that any missing volumes have not just been misshelved. We sometimes find them, but this is the first I’ve seen with an explanatory note. Scrawled on the head (top of the text block): “Today is my last day in this work”.
Coprésences, entrecroisements : le pictural et le narratif chez Marie-Claire Blais et Sergio Kokis / Kirsty Bell. (OCLC #892302761)
One major goal of authority work is distinguishing between people with similar (or same!) names. For example, this title is by Kirsty Bell, professor of French in Canada, whose authorized access point is established as:
Bell, Kirsty, 1975-
Her date of birth is included to distinguish her from Kirsty Bell, a writer and critic in Berlin, whose authorized access point had already been established as:
Bell, Kirsty
Frontiers of chemistry : plenary and keynote lectures presented at the 28th IUPAC Congress, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 16-22 August 1981 / edited by Keith J. Laidler ; International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry in conjunction with the Chemical Institute of Canada. (OCLC #8114998)
When classifying conference proceedings in Library of Congress Classification, use the year that the conference occurred, not the year when the volume was published (often the following year).
This volume was published in 1982, but covers a conference from 1981, so the call number is:
QD1 .F76 1981
Boron chemistry at the beginning of the 21st century / Yu.N. Bubnov, editor-in-chief. (OCLC #910921812)
RDA 11.13.1.8.1 on creating an Access Point for a Single Instance of a Conference, says to add the number, date, and location to the access point for the conference, as in:
111 2_ ǂa International Conference on the Chemistry of Boron ǂn (11th : ǂd 2002 : ǂc Moscow, Russia)
We the people : the American people and their government / [text, Division of Political History]. (OCLC #1288911)
In a SuDoc classification number, the cutter for the title is based on the first significant word in the title that denotes the subject of the resource, also excluding “catch phrases”. For this resource, “We the people” is skipped, and the cutter is based on the word American:
SI 1.2:Am 1/2
More about cuttering in SuDoc can be found in the GPO Classification Manual.
Up all night with Robert Downey Sr. [videorecording] / directed by Robert Downey Sr. ; screenplay by Robert Downey Sr. (OCLC #793654441)
When you are cataloging a collection of works on one record, the individual titles of those works should be recorded as analytical entries:
740 02 ǂa Babo 73. 740 02 ǂa Chafed elbows. 740 02 ǂa No more excuses. 740 02 ǂa Putney Swope. 740 02 ǂa Two tons of turquoise to Taos tonight.
No relationship designator is needed; it is already encoded in the MARC: in 740, second indicator ‘2’ designates the field as an analytical entry. The first indicator is the number of non-filing characters in the title; however, current practice is to always use first indicator ‘0’, and just enter the title without articles or other non-filing characters.
Behavior and neurology of lizards : an interdisciplinary colloquium / edited by Neil Greenberg and Paul D. MacLean. (OCLC #4571831)
In a SuDoc classification number, the cutter for the title is based on the first significant word in the title that denotes the subject of the resource. This excludes words common to government documents (“Symposium”, “Report”), to the particular agency (“Forest”, “Wood” for the Forest Service).
This resource was cuttered on the word Lizards even though it’s the fifth word in the title.
086 0_ ǂa HE 20.8102:L 76
More about cuttering in SuDoc can be found in the GPO Classification Manual.
Cotton / edited by David D. Fang and Richard G. Percy. (OCLC #909779516)
When catalog electronic resources, I follow the Provider-Neutral guidelines (even if I only know of one instance of that resource) and label the provider in the 856 ǂ3:
856 40 ǂ3 ACSESS Digital Library ǂu http://dl.sciencesocieties.org/publications/books/tocs /agronomymonogra/agronmonogr57
Religion and life / by Rudolf Eucken ; [translation by Gustav F. Beckh]. (OCLC #2972972)
The preface of this book includes the information in this record’s 500 note:
500 __ ǂa "The lecture, 'Religion and life,' ... was
delivered in German at Essex Hall, London, on Wednesday,
7 June, 1911"--Preface.
Though I’m confident that I’m holding the resource cataloged in the record I found, I disagree with the cataloger’s inclusion of the series statement and added-entry:
490 1_ ǂa [The Essex Hall lecture ; ǂv 1911] 830 _0 ǂa Essex Hall lecture ; ǂv 1911.
as that series authority is for a specific series published by a different publisher. I checked another volume of the series online and confirmed that it is a series that looks a specific way, not just confusion over publisher vs. manufacturer.
I put our holdings on that record, but did not include the series information locally, allowing the note to describe its inclusion in the lecture series, but not the bibliographic series.
Lollapalooza / Sister Ray Enterprises. (OCLC #909786219)
On first glance, I thought this video might be black and white, which would have been coded:
007 __ ǂa v ǂb d ǂd b ǂe v ǂf a ǂg i ǂh z 300 __ ǂa 1 videodisc (63 min.) : ǂb sound, black and white
I watched some of the video and, like the cover, it is in (filtered/washed out) color, so I coded it:
007 __ ǂa v ǂb d ǂd c ǂe v ǂf a ǂg i ǂh z 300 __ ǂa 1 videodisc (63 min.) : ǂb sound, color
using vocabulary described in RDA 7.17.1.3. I didn’t think Details of Colour Content (RDA 7.17.1.4) were important for identification or selection, so didn’t include any more detail.