“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

Shakespeare, William, 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, Shakespeare, William, Title Hamlet / William Shakespeare ; edited by T.J.B. Spencer ; with an introduction by Anne Barton. Publisher Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Eng. : Penguin Books, Description 383 p. ; 19 cm. Series New Penguin ShakespeareNew Penguin Shakespeare Notes Bibliography: p.55-[57]. Other author(s) Spencer, T. J. B. (Terence John Bew), Spencer, T. J. B. (Terence John Bew),

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 1.0 Question #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-Rauschenberg, Robert, Title Rauschenberg, arcadian retreats : September 19-October 18, Alternate title Arcadian retreats Publisher 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, Exhibitions. Rauschenberg, Robert, Exhibitions. Other author(s) Rose, Bernice. PaceWildenstein (Firm) Rose, Bernice. PaceWildenstein (Firm) ISBN

AACR Works created after A. 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.titlereference 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

AACR 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-Shand-Tucci, Douglass, 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, v. 2. An architect's four quests : medieval, modernist, American, ecumenical - from BobCat (NYU’s opac)

Author Eyck, Jan van, , Follower ofEyck, Jan van, , Follower of Title Llangattock Breviary: ms. 559: Annunciation [slide] Published ca –(from “Roger” at UCSD) Artist: Eyck, Jan van, c Title: Madonna and Child in a Church. Date: c Call Number: FL Ptg E972 RV MA 1.2 View: DOORWAY (from NGA slides catalog)

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) 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 MARC 21 home page National Gallery of Art opac Plymouth State with WordPress North Carolina State opac with Endeca RDA: resource description and access UCSD opac VRA Core VTLS presentation on FRBR Open WorldCat