[yul-naco] FW: Module 2 questions.

[Arakawa, Steven]

I just sent these questions related to Module 2 to Bibcomail.  I can still send more!

Steven Arakawa
Catalog Librarian for Training & Documentation  
Catalog & Metada Services   
Sterling Memorial Library. Yale University  
P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240     
(203) 432-8286 steven.arakawa at yale.edu




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From: Arakawa, Steven 
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 6:22 PM
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Subject: Module 2 questions.

The first question actually belongs w/Module 1.

With RDA, the statement of responsibility instruction is to transcribe titles, affiliations, etc. in addition to the responsible entities. When transcribing, what would be the best punctuation practice for situations where more than one affiliation, title, etc. is associated with an entity? Probably an example is easier to understand.
On the title page: 
Michelle A. Gibson University of California Jonathan Alexander University of California, Irvine Deborah T. Meem, University of Cincinnati

All commas? In AACR2 the collaborators are separated by commas. In RDA, comma could be used to separate collaborator from affiliation. The disadvantage seems to be it doesn't adequately separate subsequent collaborators from the preceding collaborators affiliations. 

 ... / Michelle A. Gibson, University of California, Jonathan Alexander, University of California, Irvine, Deborah T. Meem, University of Cincinnati ; introduction by John Geller, Yale University.

Or -- use commas to separate affiliation from the personal name, but use a semicolon to separate each collaborator? The disadvantage is that the semicolon is used for ISBD punctuation. However, if ISBD spacing is not followed, that may be sufficient to separate each person/affiliation, with ISBD spacing used to distinguish one statement of responsibility from another.

... / Michelle A. Gibson, University of California; Jonathan Alexander, University of California, Irvine; Deborah T. Meem, University of Cincinnati ; introduction by John Geller, Yale University.

Module 2 questions.

1. I have a book that seems to be a reproduction of a 341-page booklet. Each page of the reproduction reproduces 8 pages (4 recto/4 verso) of the original booklet but the reproduction does not have its own numbering.  What is best in RDA:

Follow 3.4.1.4 and record an approximate number of pages? 
Follow 3.4.5.3 and record the number of unnumbered pages: 88 unnumbered pages?
Follow 3.4.5.5 and write: 341, that is, 88 pages?

2. I posted the following on the RDA list but I don't think I got a response. 
If I am cataloging a book and describe it in the carrier statement's "other physical details" as "all color illustrations" or "chiefly color illustrations" or "chiefly illustrations" etc should the rda content term be "still image" or "text" or both? Should it have an impact on the MARC Leader? Am I overlooking something in the RDA definition of "still image"?  (or in the definition of text?) I took a look at some of the extra set bibliographic records and some assign both "still image" and "text," but others assign "text" only--I would guess this is the majority.

3. 336-338, use of subfield $3 (the example of the Book w/accompanying CD lecture-- Slide 24). As many have noted, the RDA controlled terms for content, media, & carrier type are incomprehensible to most catalog users. Although we do not display these new MARC fields, it would be nice if we could enter a specific common usage term in $3 at least for 338, since we (keyword)  index 336-338. The terms in $3 could also support use of facetting, allowing more specificity than the RDA controlled terms permit (e.g. for 338 $3 Blu-ray disc $a videodisc $2 rdacarrier), which would allow more discriminating searching by humans, or to generate more specific icons or labels. The more general terms in $a would be particularly useful for reports on all instances of videodiscs, whatever their specific type. The MARC Format for Bibliographic Data defines $3 as "Materials specified." The example used for 338 is $a sheet $2 rdacarrier $3 liner notes, and the example in Module 2 seems to support it, e.g. 338 $3 book $3 volume. Potentially, it could be used to generate a more comprehensible label:
 
ITEMS  	Blu-ray disc
         	Cast member list ($3 for $a text)
ITEMS  	Book
             	 CD
ITEMS  Laserdisc

Can $3 only be used for accompanying material? How much latitude do we have? It's not very clear in the MARC documentation.

4. The focus on the carrier elements brings up 2 questions that would impact staff who handle CIP copy cataloging.
	a. Will CIP cataloged under AACR2 rules be completed and revised to RDA after the book is received at LC?
	b. Will LC copy cataloging leave AACR2 cataloging as found, with the exception of authorized access points, which must be in RDA? Although we will contribute new cataloging with both description and access points as RDA, we have no plans to try to evaluate authorized access points in OCLC member copy cataloged as AACR2 or as RDA. OCLC will allow non-pcc cataloging to code bibliographic records as rda but continue to follow the transition rules post-day one and use existing NARS as found (assuming the cataloging institution does not participate in NACO). 

5. Using conventional collective title Works & Selections. (around slide 75). Is there any discussion on the slides/webinars about dropping the $f <date> with the conventional collective title Works? I just wanted to verify that for Works, $f is not used to differentiate, say, 2 editions of the complete works of Charles Dickens;  the cataloger just uses Works alone. So the date could only be used to differentiate editions of Pickwick papers (as in  the corporate author example in slide 95), not for situations where you use Works or Works. Selections. Related question: a title that includes the phrase "complete works of" would be assigned the conventional collective title Works? What about the phrase "collected works?"  Would this normally be assigned Works. Selections or just Works? (similarly with "collected poems" vs "complete poems" substituting Poems for Works in the conventional collective title)

6. One person compilations. For a compilation of Wallace Stevens' poems, "The palm at the end of the mind," preferred title would be Poems. Selections, but it  would also mean the cataloger is supposed to make a contents note, unless it's a really large compilation?

Steven Arakawa
Catalog Librarian for Training & Documentation  
Catalog & Metada Services   
Sterling Memorial Library. Yale University  
P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240     
(203) 432-8286 steven.arakawa at yale.edu