[DCRM-L] Item-level ephemera: What's the 245$a for this film program?

[Deborah J. Leslie]

That's an interesting solution, Matt. Not sure how I feel about assuming analogy with different media. (This is why there's a market for ephemera cataloging workshops!)

I'd love to hear how other institutions—especially those with substantial ephemera holdings—tackle this sort of discrepancy.

Deborah J. Leslie | Folger Shakespeare Library | djleslie at folger.edu |

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Thanks for bringing this up! I've encountered similar situations and agree that clarity would be helpful.

When I've cataloged advertisements, programs, playbills, prospectuses, dummies, etc. which present themselves using the same title as the full thing being advertised, performed, etc., I have sometimes transcribed the title on the program, etc., and added a devised subtitle, by analogy to RDA 2.3.4.6 for film trailers (RDA example: Annie Hall : [trailer]), which would result in something like: Max Reinhart's production of 'A midsummer night's dream' : [program].

Whether devising the whole title or just the subtitle, I think the important part is to differentiate it from the full work/expression/manifestation/item while also preserving the relationship to that WEMI, as I think RDA otherwise lacks good instructions and relationship designators for relating these sorts of resources to each other (e.g. Advertisement for (manifestation)). Possibly a refinement of subject relationships (Appendix M)?

And in a cases like this, creator/contributor relationships are also different from those of the full resource, and would also benefit from clarification. I would guess Max Reinhart, or the others involved in the production of the film, had little or nothing to do with the content or production of the program, per se. Could Warner Brothers be considered the creator of this resource?

Matt

On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 11:53 AM Erin Blake <erin.blake.folger at gmail.com<mailto:erin.blake.folger at gmail.com>> wrote:
We are clarifying our guidelines for item-level cataloging of film programs (souvenir programs, usually from the "Golden Age" of cinema), and are interested in knowing what other institutions do for the title proper when cataloging such things at the item level (translation: we don't have unanimous agreement here).  It's our policy to use RDA for machine-press era printed texts, so quotes below are from RDA, but DCRM(B) has equivalent rules that come out the same.

See attached for the outside and inside of the film program (issued folded in half, shown open for convenience in the photo).

We all agree that that this is a textual manifestation consisting of "one or more pages, leaves, sheets, or cards" and we all agree that the title of a movie is present on the front cover (namely, "Max Reinhardt's production of 'A midsummer night's dream'")

We're asking ourselves whether the film program's title can be found in or on:
1. a title page, title sheet, or title card
2. a cover or jacket issued with the manifestation
3. a caption
4. a masthead
5. a colophon
If so, what is it?

And if not, what would we use as the devised title? Following RDA 2.3.2.11 <http://access.rdatoolkit.org/rdachp2_rda2-3631.html> , our options would be:
1.       Use the opening words of the text as a title ("Warner Bros. present Max Reinhardt's production of 'A midsummer night's dream'")
2.       Devise a title that contains an indication of the nature of the resource ("Film program for Max Reinhard's production of 'A midsummer night's dream'")

 Thanks,

Erin.

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