[DCRM-L] Concern for collocation of Moby Dick artist book

[Robert Maxwell]

If this is what you are doing:

100 1_ Melville, Herman, $d 1819-1891, $e author.
240 10 Moby Dick
245 10 Moby Dick, or, The whale. $n Chapter 1

This is inaccurate. The 100/240 combination states that the resource you are describing in the bibliographic record (a single chapter of Moby Dick) contains the entire work, and it seems it does not. This is not helpful to catalog users.

This would more accurately reflect what you are doing:

100 1_ Melville, Herman, $d 1819-1891, $e author.
240 10 Moby Dick. $n Chapter 1
245 10 Moby Dick, or, The whale. $n Chapter 1

100 1_ Melville, Herman, $d 1819-1891, $e author.
240 10 Moby Dick. $n Chapter 2
245 10 Moby Dick, or, The whale. $n Chapter 2

Also, I suggest that these individual chapters are not part of a series, so I wouldn’t try to contrive a series tracing to bring them together. Properly formulated authorized access points for the parts will do that (here, coded in 100/240).

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 Graham Skinner
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2016 7:31 AM
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Subject: [DCRM-L] Concern for collocation of Moby Dick artist book

Howdy all y'all,
We are puzzling over how an artist book we've received fits into the WEMI model vis a vis collocation.
The artist book is comprised of individual chapters of Melville's Moby Dick remaining faithful to the text, but each chapter is designed by a different artist. Each chapter is issued separately and presents itself as part of a monographic series. And therefore, we are cataloguing each chapter separately with the chapter title in the 245 and a series tracing. To provide collocation, we are adding a 240 for Moby Dick, but we are unsure whether this is correct in respect to WEMI principles.
Thoughts?
If you care to dig deeper into the work, here is a link to the series online prospectus: Moby Dick Filet<http://www.mobydickfilet.com/#about>.
Cheers,
Graham Skinner

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