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Roy Lichtenstein : a retrospective : National Gallery of Art, October 14-January 13, East Building. (OCLC #819413342)

We keep small government documents like this one (88 x 88 mm) in envelopes on the shelf, but put the barcode directly on the piece (in case they get separated). Sometimes there isn’t enough room to put it on there without covering important information (the SuDoc and Depository stickers were already present when the piece came to cataloging).

I brought this piece to a meeting, and several options were suggested:

  • Put the card in a small binder and barcode that?
  • Encapsulate?
  • Enclose in a smaller envelope, and barcode that?
  • Barcode the envelope?
  • Barcode the envelope, with a note indicating to check for the piece?

I brought it to the labeling technician, who just trimmed some of the white sticker around the barcode so that it fit:

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Cluster molecules of the p-block elements / Catherine E. Housecroft. (OCLC #28377229)

Water damage is a mess, and it’s often not worth the work to salvage an individual volume, especially if it is not a rare book. We were able to replace this water-damaged paperback with a nice new hardback copy.

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Transition metal chemistry. (OCLC #1330684)

Serials can have many titles associated with them, including the Title proper:

245 00 ǂa Transition metal chemistry.

There is also Key Title, which is the unique name assigned to a resource by an ISSN registration agency:

222 _0 ǂa Transition metal chemistry ǂb (New York, N.Y.)

There is also the Abbreviated title, used for indexing or identification:

210 0_ ǂa Transit. met. chem. ǂb (N.Y.N.Y.)
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The occult sourcebook / Nevill Drury and Gregory Tillett ; illustrated by Elizabeth Trafford Smith. (OCLC #4473790)

RDA 2.8.2 on Place of Publication says that if more that one place is listed on the source of information, only the first one is core, but other guidelines suggest more:

The LC-PCC PS says: for rare books, record all places of publication. For CIP cataloging, if the first place is not in the U.S., also record the first U.S. location (similar to AACR2).

The NLA PS says: for some publications (such as those from multinational publishers), record all places if the first one is not in Australia.

The D-A-CH says: if more than one place is listed on the resource, record all of them if possible.

The MLA BP says: if you are unsure which is the “true” place of publication, record them all. 

This (hybrid) record was created pre-RDA, so includes more than one place:

260 __ ǂa London ; ǂa Boston : ǂb Routledge &
    K. Paul, ǂc 1978.
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The pagan book of living and dying : practical rituals, prayers, blessings, and meditations on crossing over / Starhawk, M. Macha NightMare, and the Reclaiming Collective. (OCLC #37238970)

RDA 9.2.2.22 on Recording Names Consisting of a Phrase says to record that phrase according to record the phrase in direct order, and apply general guidelines for names (RDA 8.5).

This record has the heading:

100 0_ ǂa Starhawk.

Note the first indicator 0 indicating “Forename”.

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The religions of mankind / by Hans-Joachim Schoeps ; translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. (OCLC #2201447)

RDA 8.5.5 on recording names with hyphens says to retain a hyphen between given names if the hyphen is used by the person, as in:

100 1_ ǂa Schoeps, Hans-Joachim, ǂd 1909-1980.
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Black theology exposed / by R.L. Jordan. (OCLC #9687117)

We are currently processing a collection of gift books from another library that put “smart barcodes” on them, which include the author, title and call number. Though we don’t put such barcodes on the rest of our books, we left them on these (extra metadata doesn’t hurt!), only crossing out the name of the old library.

In this case, the info on the smart barcode did not match the book content (it was for another book), so we crossed out that information too, and took the opportunity to re-label with a more precise call number (for Black theology):

BT82.7 .J67 1982
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Occult renaissance, 1972-2008; the great prophecy for the golden age of occultism, by Louis T. Culling with epilogue by Carl L. Weschcke. (OCLC #393792)

This title has an odd page early on, with a note from the author:

This is my official statement made December 9, 1971

I hereby grant all rights to my small book which is the prophecy of the Golden Era of Occultism to begin at the Spring Equinox 1972–including the right to copyright same under your name, Carl Weschcke.

Signed this day of 9th of December 1971 by the Author and Grantor.

Louis T. Culling

Indeed, the title page verso includes the statement:

Copyright © 1972 by Carl L. Weschcke

RDA has no element for copyright holder, only for Copyright Date, so this information is not included in the record.

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The Moon is not the Son : a close look at the teachings of Rev. Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church / by James Bjornstad. (OCLC #2985407)

RDA A.17.1 on Capitalization of Deities says to “capitalize the name of a deity and any term referring to the Christian Trinity”, and includes as examples:

Son of God
Son of Man

That seems to be the “Son” referenced in this book’s title, so it is capitalized there.

Moon in the title refers to Sun Myung Moon (Unification Church members are pejoratively called “Moonies”, referring to his name), so this word is capitalized as well (following RDA A.11).

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Quimbois, magie noire et sorcellerie aux Antilles : avec 61 pantacles et sceaux magiques / Ary Ebroïn. (OCLC #3514396)

RDA 8.5.4 on Accents and Other Diacritical Marks in names says to record them as they appear on the source of information, like: 

100 1_ ǂa Ebroïn, Ary.

In OCLC Connexion, you can type characters with diacritics by typing the unaccented character, and then adding the diacritic with Edit -> Enter diacritics… (Ctrl-E). Pasting in pre-composed characters from another source will produce an error about data needing to be ALA characters.