In 2014 there was a large donation of Russian books that are part of the series Library of World Classics. Many of these volumes contain a mix of prose, poetry, drama and stories. The poetry, prose and drama have not been separated out, but have the same call number as the fiction, for example S\RUS Pushkin. The few biographies have been separated out with the call number, for example, S\RUS 921 Pasternak.
See example records Peer Gynt and Heart of a Dog and Verses and Prose.
The Cyrillic titles and author names, with English translations, are in the google doc saved russian books. Book received from August 2015 onwards in on the second tab.
Use command-F and scan in the barcode to get to the correct line of translation. The Cyrillic and English titles and author names can be copied and pasted into the title record; do check the English for accuracy.
Click on Add Title. New records are automatically created as RDA records.
BRIEF TITLE TAB
- Title: russiantitle = englishtitle
- Author: russianauthor = englishauthor. Remember in this field, the convention is firstname lastname.
- ISBN; scan in from the book.
- Material Type; Book
- Name & Dates: entered in English only, use Find Heading for consistency. In this field the convention is lastname, firstname.
- Extent: indicate the number of pages.
SERIES/NOTES TAB
- Series and Volume will be indicated in the google doc for books from August 2015 onwards. Usually there will NOT be a volume number.
- Interest Level; these are all Adult.
- Summary: if not there, find one from goodreads.com or wikipedia. If there is no summary of the book, or if it is poetry, add some information about the author from wikipedia.
SUBJECTS TAB
- Topical Heading: Russian language materials.
- Indicate a form: Fiction, Nonfiction, Biography, Drama, Poetry. Fiction and Nonfiction are Local Headings. The others are Topical Headings.
- If Short stories are present, add this as a genre tag in the 655 field. (must use Marc Editor)
- If the book was not originally written in Russian, indicate the type of translation as a Local Heading.
ADD COPIES
- Assign next barcode
- Call number: S\RUSSIAN is the prefix, then follow regular conventions for fiction (authors last name), biograhy (920 or 921 and last name of subject of the book) or nonfiction (dewey number). The call number will be indicated on the google doc.
- Sublocation: East Sec WORLD LANGUAGES
- Vendor:
- Invoice:
Add image. Google image search using the book's ISBN.
