“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

sherman.clarke@nyu.edu

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/