Understanding MARC 21 Bibliographic Records

Understanding MARC 21 Bibliographic Records

Session 2 Assignment

Due by 8AM Wednesday, April 13to Allison Badger

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Name

Institution

Create a complete 245 field for slides 1, 3, 6, and 7.

245 14 $a The after-school lives of children : $b alone and with others while parents work / $c Deborah Belle.

245 10 $a Dragon : $b hound of honor / $c Julie Andrews Edwards and Emma Walton Hamilton.

245 10 $a 100 banned books : $b censorship histories of world literature / $c Nicholas J. Karolides, Margaret Bald and Dawn B. Sova ; introduction by Ken Wachsberger.

245 14 $a The Foundation Center’s guide to proposal writing / $c Jane C. Geever.

245 1_ $a Loyalty in death / $c J. D. Robb ; read by Susan Ericksen. (optional)

245 10 Diary of a worm / $c by Doreen Cronin ; pictures by Harry Bliss

245 10 $a Hummingbird nest : $b a journal of poems / $c Kristine O’Connell George ; illustrated by Barry Moser.

Overall, these looked good! Remember to watch your capitalization, punctuation and spacing. In the 245, subfield a, only the first word and proper nouns are capitalized.

Create a complete 246 field for the item in slides 1-5 where it is necessary for avarying form of the title.

246 3_ $a One hundred banned books

(for slide 4)

There were some interesting choices. Many people chose to enter part of the title or the phrase “adapted from the legend . . . .” A 246 is used when the cover and spines titles vary from the title page. You don’t need to re-enter part of the title, since it’s already in the 245.In the case of “adapted from the legend . . .,” I would stick that in a 500 note.

Create a 250 field for the item in slides 1-5 that specifies edition information.

250 _ _ $a Fourth edition.

(for slide 5, The Foundation Center’s Guide to Proposal Writing)

250 _ _ $a BrillianceAudio Library Edition

(Loyalty in Death)

Again, lots of interesting cataloging decisions. Many of you noted the following:

Dragon of Honor was a 1st edition

Loyalty in Death was a BriallianceAudio Library Edition

The After-School Lives of Children was an e-book edition

100 Banned Books was abridged

Usually, first editions are not noted in the 250. The first edition is the original form and no changes have been made. Edition is a way to note that changes have been made to the text.

As for e-book edition, because this is not noted anywhere on the resource, I would not include this in my record. If you choose to do so, it would be in brackets because it’s not on the resource itself. When information comes from an outside source, it needs to be in brackets.

250 _ _ [e-book edition]

For 100 Banned Books, abridgement would not be considered an edition statement. I know the CIP record mentions it, but if you look closely, Library of Congress does not do a separate edition statement. If abridged edition had appeared on the title page, then you could do a 250.

You will notice that fourth edition is spelled out. That’s because RDA advises us to pull that edition statement from the same source of information as the title and statement of responsibility. In this case, the title page. RDA also states that we transcribe what is on the item.

BrillianceAudio Library Edition is technically an edition statement. Again, the word edition tells us that changes have been made from the original. In this case, the audio may not match the written book word for word. It’s one of those things that falls under the heading of cataloger’s choice – it’s optional.

There were a few cases where people listed two edition statements for an item. There cannot be 2 250s in a record. Where there are multiple edition statements, you would record that information in a 500 note.

Create a complete 264 field for each of the following items.

Dragon: Hound of Honor (slide 3)

264 _ 1 $a New York, NY : $b HarperCollins Publishers, $c [2004].

264 _ 1 $a New York : $b HarperCollins Children’s Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, $c [2004].

Loyalty in Death (slide 6)

264 _1 $a Grand Haven, MI : $b Brilliance Audio, $c [2003].

264 _ 2 $a Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, $c [2003].

264 _2 $a Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, $c [2003].

Diary of a Worm (slides 7-8)

264 _1 $a Norwalk, CT : $b Weston Woods Studios, $c [2004].

264 _ 2 $a Norwalk, CT : $b Weston Woods Studios, $c [2004].

Hummingbird Nest (slide 9)

264 _1 $a Orlando: $b Harcourt, Inc., $c [2004].

264 _ 1 $a Orlando, Florida : $b Harcourt, Inc., $c [2004].

This is where I saw the most confusion and received more than a few questions and emails of frustration. There are a lot of options when it comes to the 264. Again, your decisions depend on your library and your patrons’ needs.

One of the biggest areas of confusion was the copyright date. All the examples used a copyright date. Either as ©2006 or text copyright 2006 or copyright 2006. Since there is no publication date, we are assuming the publication date and the copyright date are the same - - we are using the copyright in place of the publication date. This means we need to use brackets. The brackets tell us that date is not a publishing date.

264 _ 1 $a Lincoln, Nebraska : Falcon Publishing, [2006].

Some catalogers like to go a step further and doing the following:

264 _ 1 $a Lincoln, Nebraska : Falcon Publishing, [2006].

This tells us that the bracketed date is in fact the copyright date because brackets can also mean we found that information somewhere else.

Some the examples had more than one copyright date. In those cases, go with the one that applies to the item in hand. In other words, you want to catalog what you have; not the related item. For example, Loyalty in Death lists two copyright dates. One for the book and one for the audio cassettes. Since you are working with the audio cassettes, you will only use the copyright date associated with the cassettes. If you wanted to, you could do a 500 note – “Based on the book published in 1999.”

You will notice thatthere are several options for Loyalty in Death and Diary of a Worm. You can use either a 1 or a 2 for the second indicator. The 2 tells us that this is the distributor. Often DVDs and CDs do not list a publisher or it’s not clear what role the listed corporate entity performed. In those cases, we assume the corporate entity is a publisher and use a 1 for our 2nd indicator. If you know the role company played or you’ve done some research, you can use a 2. Again, both are acceptable.