[DCRM-L] Question about numerical part of a multi-volume work

[Robert Maxwell]

For a DCRM(B) record the 245 needs to faithfully transcribe what’s on the title page, which you say doesn’t include “Galeni omnia quae extant opera”. I don’t think 1B6 is contemplating a situation where the main title doesn’t appear anywhere at all on the book. (Unless your copy is imperfect and happens to be missing the page that has “Galeni omnia quae extant opera” on it?)

240 should contain the preferred title for the work (that is, the portion of the authorized access point for the work that follows the authorized access point for the author, everything from the title on), which in this case is “Works. $k Selections (…) …” This aggregate work in volume 6 contains a selection of Galen’s works; since there are lots of aggregate works that contain selections of Galen you need to add a parenthetical qualifier to “Works. Selections” because otherwise the authorized access point for the work will conflict with that of another work (i.e. another set of selections). I find it easier in cases like this simply to dispense with the authorized access point for the (aggregate) work as a whole and instead include access points for the individual works/expressions in the volume (in 700 fields). This seems to me to be RDA’s preferred solution under 6.27.2.3 (“construct authorized access points for each of the parts”), and in my opinion is more helpful to users of the catalog anyway. That’s not always possible (maybe there are 50 works/expressions) but usually it is possible.

Bob

Robert L. Maxwell
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From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Jane Stemp Wickenden
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2016 8:20 PM
To: DCRM Users' Group <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>
Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Question about numerical part of a multi-volume work

Ted,

Personally I would have what you see on the title page as 245, and cover the overall title with 240 $a Omnia quae extant opera. $n 6. $p. Chirurgiae pars.

But I may be behind the times.

Jane
On 20 December 2016 02:37:36 GMT+00:00, "Gemberling, Ted P" <tgemberl at uab.edu<mailto:tgemberl at uab.edu>> wrote:
I am cataloging the 6th part (actually the 7th) of an 11-volume work. You can see a record for all the volumes at OCLC #808232373. I don’t consider it appropriate to use that record because we only have the one volume. We put signatures on our DCRM(b) records, and I would not have them for any of the other volumes. Also, I can’t verify the transcription for them. So I want to create a record just for our volume. The problem is that the title for the whole set (Galeni omnia quae extant opera) is not on our volume. I tried creating a record like this:


Galeni omnia quae extant opera. ǂn Sexta classis, ǂp eam chirurgi[ae] partem amplectitur, qu[ae] ad cucurbitulas, scarificationes, hirudines, deriuationem, reuulsionem, ac phlebotomiam spectat ...


Is that possible in DCRM(b)? Does it conflict with rule 1B6? 1B6 seems to say do something like this: Galeni omnia quae extant opera. Sexta classis : ǂb eam chirurgi[ae] partem …


Or is that incorrect, too? 1B6 seems to be about a case where the title page (or chief source of information) has the title of the whole work. You transpose it if the name for the part comes first and add a note indicating the transposition. But in my case, I only know the name of the whole work from a bibliographic record in OCLC. Would you state that in the record for the part? Would it have to be in brackets in the 245?


Any guidance you can give will be helpful.


Thanks,


Ted P. Gemberling
Historical Collections Cataloger
UAB Lister Hill Library, rm. 234B
1720 Second Ave. South
Birmingham, Ala. 35294-0013
Phone: (205)934-2461
Fax: (205)934-3545



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