Log 6: Assisting Virginia in completing original cataloging of monograph recreation of medieval painting; image by Jacob ben Asher within OCLC

May 28th UTEP Library

Media & Microfilm, Cataloging Department

TiJeat Berry; Supervisor Joy Urbina and Virginia Rassaei

Working with Virginia on Save File 39

Abra'ah Turim, created by Jacob ben Asher, from the Middle Ages.

Arba'ah Turim by Jacob ben Asher. Cataloged in OCLC by V. Rassaei. Language: Hebrew.

This is the back of the image along with the OCLC record Virginia created. We were working on finalizing it. For the original cataloging of an item that did not have information needed to describe what the painting was depicting. On the back, there is the creator's name, but any possible description of the painting is in Hebrew. She printed 8 OCLC records to examine to assist her with subject headings and description.

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It takes more time and a lot of research to catalog an item like this which is a recreation of an item from centuries ago and in different languages. As stated previously she used other OCLC records to help describe the item, but some parts did not match up. In Field 500 in one record there were notes stating the item was accompanied by an English translation and attachments; the one that we had in hand did not have these items. Additionally, she researched Vatican Apostolic Library, which appeared in a crest on the item in hand as well as in other OCLC records. There are 4 instances of Field 500, in the 3rd one is a description of the painting, which was taken from https://mediastorehouse.com/; she put the link in this field as justification, but OCLC was not accepting it. and we had to decide if the link needed to be removed. 

Multiple errors that come up during validation

 I argued that this link needed to remain for future authority and we spent a few minutes trying to determine how OCLC would validate the record with the link. I recommended that we include the link as part of the notes and not as a separate subfield under ‡u

I will have to ask Virginia about this field again because according the LOC MARC 21 there is not supposed to be a ‡u, but in OCLC Bibliographic and Standards ‡u is Uniform Resource Identifier that is used in fields

505 0_

520 3 _

520 4 _;

I thought perhaps the problem had been that we should have used ‡6 Linkage (NR), but from my understanding, the link refers to connecting different fields within the record, not to an outside source. 

It also took us some effort to validate the record due to issues in Type, TMat, and Field 040. I spoke to Virginia about how Field 040 gave me the hardest time when I was performing original cataloging examples in RDA 2. A few days I learned from her that this field wants information about the cataloging source and language used, and I suggested that a possible issue is that this particular record did not have Hebrew and only English should be indicated in 040 with Hebrew represented in 008 Lang and Ctry.

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Speaking with Alejandra Mayer Special Collections Cataloging Librarian;

see Supervisor Interview