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

Tue Dec 4 08:00:00 MST 2018

I’ve almost always transcribed what was on the item and explained what it was in a note, adding 130s or 100 subfield t as necessary.

Stephen R. Young
Rare Book Catalog Librarian
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
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New Haven CT 06520-8330

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My interpretation is that the program lacks a title. With similar material, I’ve devised titles along the lines of your 2nd option (Film program for Max Reinhard's production of 'A midsummer night's dream') because I think it’s more helpful for our users, esp. when looking at a list of search results. Hedging, I’d also give a variant title for:  Warner Bros. present Max Reinhardt's production of 'A midsummer night's dream’.

When using a devised title in this context, I’m curious if anyone thinks it could be given without square brackets? Does a program normally carry (self-)identifying information (see RDA 2.2.4)?

Matt makes good points about other important parts of the description.

Francis

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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 <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faccess.rdatoolkit.org%2Frdachp2_rda2-3631.html&data=02%7C01%7Cstephen.young%40yale.edu%7C13c8fef4c85a4597483408d65960ffb0%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C636794670490593224&sdata=EGurDaT0RhVNMsXpleCZ3QEcVrVKbX6vYXSanK3J3jM%3D&reserved=0> , 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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