IS 461: Descriptive Cataloging
G. H. Leazer Winter 2006
Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records (FRBR) Project, Part 2
This assignment is intended:
 to illustrate the ways individual works form larger conglomerate units (sometimes ca lled “bibliographic families”)
 to illustrate how access points are used to achieve collocation, and
 to explore how FRBR models associations among various works.
In your reader is Douglas Anderson's 1993 "Note on the Text" that is part of Houghton Mifflin's 1994 (copyright) edition of
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring . I am slightly embarrassed to use this text as the example used in this assignment, but Anderson's note is succinct, and this bibliographic family offers an appropriate level of complexity and familiarity. Consider yourself lucky
—I could have chosen
Harry Potter .
The first step in this project was handed out with assignment 3: construct quasibibliographic records (“pseudodescriptions”?) for each “version” of LOTR that is listed i n Anderson’s essay.
This part (pt. 2) of the project asks you to consider the access points you will assign for each one those pseudodescriptions. For each pseudo-descriptions, please list the main entry and the added entries.
Alternatively, some of those pseudo-descriptions may not require an additional entry in the catalog
—if so, please indicate which previous version is the same document by saying something like “this is the same as AU 1954, and would not appear as a separate bibliographic record in the catalog.”
Finally, alphabetize the records by their access points. Please note that when two records have the same access points, they are subarranged by the next element in the description. That means that if two books contain have “Tolkien, J. R.
R. (John Ronald Reuel), 18921973” for the main entry, then the are sub-arranged alphabetically by the title. And that means that “Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. The fellowship of the ring.” will file before “Tolkien, J. R.
R. (John Ronald Reuel), 18921973. The return of the king.” In the example below I have two appearances for the same book, the first corresponding to the title, the second to the main entry (i.e., the author).
The fellowship of the ring . The fellowship of the ring / J.R.R. Tolkien.
(AU 1954)
…
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. The fellowship of the ring / J.R.R. Tolkien.
(AU 1954)
I also want you to consider the syndetic structure provided by the references in authority records. How does the syndetic structure provided by the references in the authority record channel people to the appropriate bibliographic record(s)?
This should yield the sequence of bibliographic records as they might appear in a catalog, as specified by AACR2 .
Please be ready to discuss your observations about this sequence in class.
Here are my answers for the first part of the FRBR assignment.
Pseudo-bibliographic descriptions, in chronological order
(AU 1954)
The fellowship of the ring / J.R.R. Tolkien. London : Allen & Unwin, 1954.
Note: "Contains printer's errors and compositor's mistakes, including wellintentioned corrections…"
(HM 1954)
The fellowship of the ring / J.R.R. Tolkien. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1954.
Note: "Contains printer's errors and compositor's mistakes, including wellintentioned corrections…"
(AU1954 2)
The two towers / J.R.R. Tolkien. London, Allen & Unwin, 1954

(over)

(HM 1955)
The two towers / J.R.R. Tolkien. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1955
(AU 1955)
The return of the king / J.R.R. Tolkien. London: Allen & Unwin, 1955
Note: Contains no index, only an apology for its absence
(HM 1956)
The return of the king / J.R.R. Tolkien. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1956.
Note: Contains no index, only an apology for its absence
(AU 1956-65)
The fellowship of the ring / J.R.R. Tolkien. ??? 1956-1965.
Note: Second impression from reset text introduced new errors, sometime in 1956-65 (not clear which publisher).
(Ace 1965)
The lord of the rings / J.R.R. Tolkien. US : Ace Books, 1965.
Note: Unauthorized edition of Lord of the rings , with new typos and photographically reproduced appendices.
(Bal 1965)
The fellowship of the ring / J.R.R. Tolkien. First rev. New York : Ballantine Books, 1965.
Note: New foreword, extended prologue, index.
(Bal 1965 2)
The two towers / J.R.R. Tolkien. First rev. New York : Ballantine Books, 1965.
Note: New foreword, extended prologue, index.
(Bal 1965 3)
The return of the king / J.R.R. Tolkien. First rev. New York : Ballantine Books, 1965.
Note: New foreword, extended prologue, index and revised appendices.
(Bal 1966)
The return of the king / J.R.R. Tolkien. First rev., 3rd and 4th impression New York : Ballantine Books,
1965 (impression June and August 1966).
Note: Revision to the appendices, including the "Estella Bolger" in App. C.
(AU 1966)
The lord of the rings / J.R.R. Tolkien. 2nd ed. London : Allen & Unwin, 1966
Note: Same text as Ballantine (1965), but lacking the 1966 revisions to the appendices.
(AU 1967)
The lord of the rings / J.R.R. Tolkien. 2nd ed., 2nd impression, 1967. London : Allen & Unwin, 1967
Note: Corrections of nomenclature (p. xi) based on Allen and Unwin, 1966?
(HM 1967)
The lord of the rings / J.R.R. Tolkien. 2nd ed. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1967 [with various copyright dates]
Note: Photo-offset from 1966 Allen & Unwin.
(NAL 1969)
Bored of the rings : a parody of J.R.R. Tolkien's The lord of the rings / by Henry N. Beard and Douglas C.
Kenney.
New York : New American Library, 1969.
(NLC 2001)
The lord of the rings, the fellowship of the ring / New Line Cinema.
Los Angeles : New Line Home
Entertainment, 2001.
You can add some others if you want.