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“On Printed Materials, AACR, MARC, FRBR, and WEMI”
“What is a Work?”
VRA Annual Conference (2007 : Kansas City, Mo.)
Sherman Clarke
New York University Libraries
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.Hamlet.
• Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1950• Dover Variorum, 1963 (2 v.)• Barnes & Noble, 1966 (with
facsim.)• Yale U. Press, 1947 (with
facsim.)• Oxford U. Press, 1992• Swan Books, 1983• New Cambridge Shakespeare,
1985• Cambridge school Shakespeare,
1994
• Oxford Shakespeare, 1987
• Chiswick Press, 1877
• New Penguin Shakespeare, 1980
• Oberon classics, 2005
• Paddington Press, 1996 (illus.)
Author Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.Title Hamlet / William Shakespeare ; edited by T.J.B.
Spencer ; with an introduction by Anne Barton.Publisher Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Eng. : Penguin
Books, 1980.Description 383 p. ; 19 cm.Series New Penguin ShakespeareNotes Bibliography: p.55-[57].Other author(s)
Spencer, T. J. B. (Terence John Bew), 1915-1978
FRBR user tasks
• use the data to find materials that correspond to user’s stated search criteria, e.g., subject, title, author
• use the data to identify an entity, e.g., version, edition
• use the data to select an entity that is appropriate to needs, e.g., language, version
• use the data to obtain access to the entity described and selected, e.g., location, availability
LCRI 1.0: DECISIONS BEFORE CATALOGING
• What is being cataloged?• Type of issuance• Monograph vs. serial• Situations requiring further consideration
– e-resources, loose-leaf pubs., conference pubs., supplements, &c
• Edition or copy of monograph• Change in cataloging decision: monograph/serial• Change in type of issuance• Initial articles
LCRI 1.0Question #1: What is being cataloged?
• What aspect will the record represent?– independent resource– part of a larger resource– part of a collection
• What is the type of issuance?– monograph vs serial– edition or copy
Edition or copy?
• explicit indication of changes
• variations in title, edition, extent, series
• what doesn’t matter?– printing or copyright date when there’s a
publication date– minor variation in publisher’s name– addition or deletion of ISBN– difference in binding
Author Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-Title Rauschenberg, arcadian retreats : September 19-October
18, 1997 ...Alternate title Arcadian retreatsPublisher New York, NY : PaceWildenstein, c1997.Description 11 p., 12 leaves of plates : col. ill., port. ; 33 cm.Notes Essay by Bernice Rose.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 11).Subject (LCSH)
Rauschenberg, Robert, --1925- --Exhibitions. Other author(s) Rose, Bernice.
PaceWildenstein (Firm) ISBN 1878283715
AACR2 25.3. Works created after 1500
25.3A. Use the title or form of title in the original language by which a work created after 1500 has become known through use in manifestations of the work or in reference sources.– Shakespeare, William
[Hamlet]
The tragicall historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke
– Swift, Jonathan
[Gulliver’s travels]
Travels into several remote nations of the world / by Lemuel Gulliver
AACR2 25.6. Parts of a work
Tolkien, J.R.R.
[Two towers]
x Tolkien, J.R.R. Lord of the rings. 2, Two towers
Proust, Marcel
[Du côté de chez Swann]
x Proust, Marcel. À la recherche du temps perdu. 1, Du côté de chez Swann
Homer
[Iliad. Book 1-6]
The first six books of Homer’s Iliad
Author Shand-Tucci, Douglass, 1941-Title Ralph Adams Cram : life and architecture / Douglass
Shand-Tucci.Publisher Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press,
c1995-Description v. : ill. ; 25 cm.Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents v. 1. Boston bohemia, 1881-1900 -- v. 2. An
architect's four quests : medieval, modernist, American, ecumenical
- from BobCat (NYU’s opac)
Author Eyck, Jan van, 1390-1440, Follower of
Title Llangattock Breviary: ms. 559: Annunciation [slide]
Published ca. 1450– (from “Roger” at UCSD)
Artist: Eyck, Jan van, c.1390-1441.
Title: Madonna and Child in a Church.
Date: c. 1425.
Call Number: FL Ptg E972 RV MA 1.2
View: DOORWAY
(from NGA slides catalog)
http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.pdf
FRBR entities: Group 1
Group 2 Entities and “Responsibility” Relationships
Work, Expression, Manifestation, Item
Group 3 Entities and “Subject” Relationships
Work
“concept”
• FRBR: “an abstract notion or idea”
– may include fields of knowledge, disciplines, schools of thought, theories, processes, techniques, practices
• CCO: “generic concepts as opposed to proper nouns or names”
– may include objects, materials, activities, agents, styles / periods / cultures, physical attributes, associated concepts (AAT facets)
“object”
• FRBR: “a material thing”
– may include “animate and inanimate objects occurring in nature; fixed, movable and moving objects that are the product of human creation; objects that no longer exist”
• CCO: “all discrete tangible or visible things that are inanimate and produced by human activity”
– may include built works, visual works, furnishings, images, written documents
“the divided world” (NAF/SAF)http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/saco/alpha405.html
Name Authority File
abbeys
airports
bars
cemeteries
chapels
churches (in use or in ruins)
circuses
&c
Subject Authority File
arenas
artists’ groups
auditoriums
baths, ancient
bridges
castles
cities, extinct
&c
Further reading:
• Library of Congress Cataloging & Acquisitions http://www.loc.gov/aba/
• MARC 21 home page http://www.loc.gov/marc/• National Gallery of Art opac http://library.nga.gov/• Plymouth State with WordPress
http://www.plymouth.edu/library/opac/• North Carolina State opac with Endeca
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/catalog/• RDA: resource description and access
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/rda.html• UCSD opac http://roger.ucsd.edu/• VRA Core 4.0 http://www.vraweb.org/projects/vracore4/index.html• VTLS presentation on FRBR
http://www.vtls.com/documents/FRBR2.PPT• Open WorldCat http://www.worldcat.org/