‘Weird’ titlesin RDA and MARC

Workshop for Indiana University Libraries’ Database Management Section, 30 March 2016

Preferred titles, collective titles, and conventional collective titles

The Title Indexor, Why are we here today?

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The more things change...sorting & collocating

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Most books are easy to sort into the title index.

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Bouchard. Loren. Bob’s Burgers burger book

Title Index—Sorting

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Tragedie of

Macbeth

Tragedy of

Macbeth

Shakespeare’s The tragedie of

Macbeth

Traigeide Mhic

Bheatha

Illustrated Macbeth

Shakespeare, William,

1564-1616. Macbeth

Title Index—Collocating

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100 1# Shakespeare, William, ǂd 1564-1616.

240 10 Macbeth245 10 Shakespeare's The

tragedie of Macbeth : ǂb printed from the folio of 1623.

A bibliographic record for Macbeth

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100 1# Shakespeare, William, ǂd 1564-1616. ǂt Macbeth400 1# Shakespeare, William, ǂd 1564-1616. ǂt Illustrated Macbeth400 1# Shakespeare, William, ǂd 1564-1616. ǂt Macbeth for young

people400 1# Shakespeare, William, ǂd 1564-1616. ǂt Shakespeare's Macbeth

400 1# Shakespeare, William, ǂd 1564-1616. ǂt Shakespeare's The tragedie of Macbeth

400 1# Shakespeare, William, ǂd 1564-1616. ǂt Shakespeare's tragedy of Macbeth

400 1# Shakespeare, William, ǂd 1564-1616. ǂt Tragedie of Macbeth400 1# Shakespeare, William, ǂd 1564-1616. ǂt Tragedy of Macbeth

400 1# Shakespeare, William, ǂd 1564-1616. ǂt William Shakespeare's Macbeth

An authority record collocating Macbeth(s)

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100 1# Shakespeare, William, ǂd 1564-1616.

240 10 Macbeth. ǂl Irish245 10 Traigeide Mhic Bheatha / ǂc William Shakespeare, a chum

[...]

A bibliographic record for a translation of Macbeth

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100 1# Shakespeare, William, ǂd 1564-1616. ǂt Macbeth100 1# Shakespeare, William, ǂd 1564-1616. ǂt Macbeth. ǂl Amharic

100 1# Shakespeare, William, ǂd 1564-1616. ǂt Macbeth. ǂl Armenian100 1# Shakespeare, William, ǂd 1564-1616. ǂt Macbeth. ǂl Czech100 1# Shakespeare, William, ǂd 1564-1616. ǂt Macbeth. ǂl French100 1# Shakespeare, William, ǂd 1564-1616. ǂt Macbeth. ǂl German100 1# Shakespeare, William, ǂd 1564-1616. ǂt Macbeth. ǂl Greek100 1# Shakespeare, William, ǂd 1564-1616. ǂt Macbeth. ǂl Irish

100 1# Shakespeare, William, ǂd 1564-1616. ǂt Macbeth. ǂl Japanese

A list of authority records that collocate translations

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Tragedie of

Macbeth

Tragedy of

Macbeth

Shakespeare’s The tragedie of

Macbeth

Traigeide Mhic

Bheatha

Illustrated Macbeth

Shakespeare, William,

1564-1616. Macbeth

Title Index—Keyword Search

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Some Definitionsor, You Will Not Find the Phrase “Uniform Title” in RDA Toolkit

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Preferred Title

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RDA Glossary: The title or form of title chosen to identify the work. The preferred title is the title that gets sorted neatly into the title index.

Preferred Title

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Preferred titles are given to individual works...

245 Bob’s Burgers burger book

Preferred Title

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...and preferred titles are given to works that require what AACR2 called a “uniform title”

100 Shakespeare, William, ǂd 1564-1616.240 Macbeth245 The tragedie of Macbeth

Preferred Title

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… and preferred titles are given to compilations of works.100 Shakespeare, William, ǂd 1564-1616.240 Plays. ǂk Selections245 Four great tragedies : ǂb Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, and Romeo and Juliet / ǂc William Shakespeare.

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Collective Titles

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◉Collective title RDA 2.3.2.6◉Conventional collective title RDA 6.2.2.10

IUL follows the LC-PCC-PS for RDA 6.2.2.10.3

Conventional Collective Title

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A title used as the preferred title for a compilation containing two or more works by one person, family, or corporate body, or two or more parts of a work (e.g., Works, Poems, Selections) RDA Glossary

Conventional Collective Title

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Conventional collective titles use a generic descriptor to refer to all of the works represented in a single piece in hand

◉Works. RDA 6.2.2.10.1◉Works. Selections. RDA 6.2.2.10.3 Alt◉Works. Selections. Spanish. RDA 3.11.1.3

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Conventional Collective Title Examples

100 Carroll, Lewis, ǂd 1832-1898. ǂt Works. ǂf 2015100 Carroll, Lewis, ǂd 1832-1898. ǂt Works. ǂk Selections (2014)100 Carroll, Lewis, ǂd 1832-1898. ǂt Works. ǂk Selections. ǂl Spanish. ǂf 2015

These examples illustrate very common preferred titles for works that have transcribed titles like, “Complete works of …” or “Selected works of …”

Conventional Collective Title

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Conventional collective titles may use a form descriptor to refer to all of the works represented in a single piece in hand

◉Poems.RDA 6.2.2.10.2

◉Poems. Selections. RDA 6.2.2.10.3 Alt◉Poems. Selections. Spanish. RDA 6.11.1.3

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Conventional Collective Title Examples

100 Carroll, Lewis, ǂd 1832-1898. ǂt Poems100 Carroll, Lewis, ǂd 1832-1898. ǂt Stories100 Carroll, Lewis, ǂd 1832-1898. ǂt Stories. ǂk Selections. ǂl Spanish100 Carroll, Lewis, ǂd 1832-1898. ǂt Correspondence. ǂk Selections

These examples illustrate very common preferred titles for works that have transcribed titles like, “Collected [verse, short stories, etc.] of …” or “A selection from the letters of …”

… and then it all goes WRONGor, FRBR: a love song

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FRBR & MARC & Punctuation

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Enclose these elements in ( )

◉Form of work◉Date of work◉Place of origin of

work◉Other distinguishing

characteristics of work

◉Other distinguishing characteristics of expression

Precede these elements by full stop and a space

◉Content type◉Date of expression◉Language of

expression

RDA E.1.2.5

FRBR & MARC & Punctuation

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Enclose these elements in ( )

◉Form of work◉Date of work◉Place of origin of

work◉Other distinguishing

characteristics of work

◉Other distinguishing characteristics of expression

Precede these elements by full stop and a space

◉Content type◉Date of expression◉Language of

expression

RDA E.1.2.5

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RDA titles (now with 100% more FRBR!)

These are examples of FRBR Work titles:100 Carroll, Lewis, ǂd 1832-1898. ǂt Works. ǂf 2015100 Carroll, Lewis, ǂd 1832-1898. ǂt Works. ǂk Selections (2014)

This is an example of a FRBR Expression title:100 Carroll, Lewis, ǂd 1832-1898. ǂt Works. ǂk Selections. ǂl Spanish. ǂf 2015

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RDA titles (now with 100% more FRBR!)

These are examples of FRBR Work titles:100 Carroll, Lewis, ǂd 1832-1898. ǂt Works. ǂf 2015100 Carroll, Lewis, ǂd 1832-1898. ǂt Works. ǂk Selections (2014)

This is an example of a FRBR Expression title:100 Carroll, Lewis, ǂd 1832-1898. ǂt Works. ǂk Selections. ǂl Spanish. ǂf 2015

Why doesn’t this date get a period space ǂf and the date below does??FRBR.

(Doing it wrong)

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040 InU ǂb eng ǂe rda ǂc InU

100 Rasputin, Valentin, ǂd 1937-2015. ǂt Works. ǂk Selections. ǂf 2015100 Tolstoy, Leo, ǂc graf, ǂd 1828-1910. ǂt Works. ǂk Selections. ǂf 2015100 Vasilʹev, Boris. ǂt Works. ǂk Selections. ǂf 2015100 Zhu, Jianxin, ǂd 1905-1967. ǂt Works. ǂk Selections. ǂf 2015

Corrected authorized access points

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040 InU ǂb eng ǂe rda ǂc InU

100 Rasputin, Valentin, ǂd 1937-2015. ǂt Works. ǂk Selections (2015)100 Tolstoy, Leo, ǂc graf, ǂd 1828-1910. ǂt Works. ǂk Selections (2015)100 Vasilʹev, Boris. ǂt Works. ǂk Selections (2015)100 Zhu, Jianxin, ǂd 1905-1967. ǂt Works. ǂk Selections (2015)

Thou shalt not...(really, don’t do this)

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Thou shalt not......create a preferred title (uniform title) for a language translation when the translated title (or the translated title’s Romanized form) exactly matches the title of the original work.

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(Doing it wrong)

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010 no2014111348040 InU ǂb eng ǂe rda ǂc InU100 Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich, ǂd 1812-1891. ǂt

Oblomov. ǂl Romanian400 Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich, ǂd 1812-1891. ǂt Oblomov670 Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich. Oblomov, 1973.

(Doing it wrong)

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010 no2014111348040 InU ǂb eng ǂe rda ǂc InU100 Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich, ǂd 1812-1891. ǂt

Oblomov. ǂl Romanian400 Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich, ǂd 1812-1891. ǂt Oblomov670 Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich. Oblomov, 1973.

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Cataloging is an art, not a science.—Charles Cutter, 1904

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Image Credits

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Slide 3, 7 Students Using Card Catalog, Indiana University

Slide 13 Burrowing owl, kuhnmi

Slide 19 Burrowing Owl (tilting head left), Mike’s Birds

Slide 33 Burrowing Owl, Squeezyboy

Jennifer A. LissHead, Monographic Image CatalogingIndiana University, Bloomington Librariesjaliss@indiana.edu0000-0003-3641-4427

Thanks!

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