Cataloguing with COMARC format:

What now? Some dilemmas as seen by the Maribor Public Libray

Anka Rogina, 14 May 2014

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MARIBORSKA KNJIŽNICA

Maribor Public Library

• Public library

– consisting of 19 departments

– covering 12 municipalities

• Attention to user groups and to collections

Cataloguing environment

Real environment:

• Not precisely determined cataloguing rules

• COBISS.SI system

– COBIB.SI ‒ the union bibliographic database and local

bibliographic databases

– COMARC format based on UNIMARC

– Authority control for authors’ personal names only

Users Groups

• Children

Target audience code in field 100e=a,b,c,d,(e)

• Users with special needs

– Blind, visually impaired users

– Deaf or partially deaf users

– Users with reading disabilities (people with dyslexia, people

who had experienced head injuries, slightly mentally disabled

users, etc.)

Target audience code?

Users Groups

• Accepted phrases:

„Large print“ – 106a=d, 300a

„Capital letters“ – 300a, 610a

„Books for people with dyslexia“ – 610a

„Books for the Blind“ – 106a=f, 610a

„Tactile books“ – 610a

„Sign language“ – 610a

• Difficulties in searching library material

Users Groups

Users Groups

Toys

Another similar example ‒ coding of toys:

• Toys can be better coded

– 001b=r

– 117a= ah, ap, aq, ar, at

• Missing codes for a more detailed subdivision of toys

– Educational/learning toy groups are marked by accepted

phrase in fields 300a and 610a

• Difficulties in searching

Toys

Collections

The collections are dispersed across the departments:

– SIKMB Local History Collection

– SIKMB Film Collection

The use of the accepted phrase in field 830 – General

cataloguer‘s note

– Field 852 – Location and call number does not exist in

COMARC/B

Collections

Relationships

• Data is used for informational purposes only

• Problem of indicating relationships

– Example: The relation between the record for a film and the

record for a book according to which the film is made

– Relations at the level of bibliographic records and not at the

level of authority records

Relationships

• Current practice

– The statement of the book title in field 300a and/or the

statement of the book‘s author in field 702, using the relator

code 100 ‒ bibliographic predecessor

– Adding an entry for the author and title of the book in field 423

– The statement of the author and title of the book in the 6XX

Subject analysis block

– An entry into field 488 is not possible because in COMARC/B

this field applies only to continuing resources

Relationships

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2001 [a]Pride & prejudice [b]Videoposnetek [d]Prevzetnost in pristranost [f]director Joe Wright [g]screenplay

Deborah Moggach [g]based upon the novel by Jane Austen [g]director of photography Roman Osin

[g]music by Dario Marianelli

70211[3]8965475 [a]Austen [b]Jane [f]1775-1817 [4]100 - bibliografski predhodnik

2001 [a]Frankenstein [b]Videoposnetek [f]directed by Kenneth Branagh [g]screenplay by Steph Lady and Frank

Darabont [g]director of photography Roger Pratt [g]music by Patrick Doyle

5121 [a]Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

60011[a]Shelley [b]Mary Wollstonecraft [f]1797-1851 [x]"Frankenstein"

2001 [a]Ossessione [b]Videoposnetek [d]Demonska ljubimca [f]diretto da Luchino Visconti [g]sceneggiatura e

dialoghi di Luchino Visconti ... [et al.] [g]fotografia di Aldo Tonti e Domenico Scala [g]commento musicale di

Giuseppe Rosati

300 [a]Film je posnet po romanu The postman always rings twice Jamesa M. Caina

423 1[1]2000 [a]#The #postman always rings twice [1]700 1 [a]Cain [b]James M. [f]1892-1977 [4]070 – avtor

2000 [a]Ali androidi sanjajo o električnih ovcah? [f]Philip K. Dick [g][prevedla Jan Jona Javoršek in Urša Vogrinc

Javoršek]

300 [a]Prevod dela: Do androids dream of electric sheep?

300 [a]Po romanu je bil posnet film Iztrebljevalec

50000[a]Do androids dream of electric sheep? [m]slovenski jezik

5400 [a]Iztrebljevalec

Thank you for your attention!

anka.rogina@mb.sik.si