Katherine Georgian
georgiank1@owls.southernct.edu
ILS 506-S70
Eino Sierpe
Assignment 2: Shelflisting and Subject Analysis
April 1, 2012
PQ7519.D3 1917
Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916.
Las obras completas / Ruben Dario. -- Madrid : Editorial Mundo
Latino, 1917-20.
PQ7519.D3A17 1945
Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916.
Prosas profanas / Ruben Dario. -- 2nd ed. -- Buenos Aires,
Argentina : Espasa-Calpe, 1945.
PQ7519.D3A17 1954
Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916.
Poesias completas / Ruben Dario. ; edicion, introd. y notas de
alfonso Mendez Plancarte -- Madrid : Aguilar, 1954.
PQ7519.D3A17 1967
Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916.
Poesias completas / Ruben Dario. ; ordenadas por Luis Alberto
Ruiz -- 10th ed. -- Buenos Aires : Ediciones A. Zamora, 1967.
PQ7519.D3A17 1969
Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916.
Ruben Dario : Antologia poetica. / Ruben Dario. -- New York :
Las Americas, 1969.
PQ7519.D3A225 2001
Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916.
[Poems. English and Spanish, Selections]
Selected poems of Ruben Dario : a bilingual anthology / Ruben
Dario ; edited, translated, and with an introduction by Alberto
Acereda and Will Derusha. -- Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University
Press ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c2001.
Translations into English.
PQ7519.D3A227 2002
Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916.
[Selections. English and Spanish]
Stories and poems = Cuentos y poesias / Ruben Dario ; edited and
translated by Stanley Appelbaum. -- Mineola, NY : Dover, c2002.
Translations into English.
PQ7519.D3A6 1949
Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916.
Antologia poetica / Ruben Dario; seleccion, estudio preliminar,
chronologia, notas y glosario de Arturo Torres. -- Berkeley :
University of California Press, 1949.
PQ7519.D3A63 1997
Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916.
Amar, amar: antologia / Ruben Dario. -- 1st ed. –- Rosario,
Argentina : Ameghino Editora, c1997.
PQ7519.D3A98 1968
Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916.
Azul / Ruben Dario. -- Madrid : Espasa-Calpe, c1968.
PQ7519.D3C36 1940
Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916.
Cantos de vida y esperanza / Ruben Dario. -- Buenos Aires :
Espana-Calpe Argentina, 1940.
PQ7519.D3C3613 2004
Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916.
[Cantos de vida y esperanza. English]
Songs of life and hope = Cantos de vida y esperanza / Ruben
Dario; edited and translated by Will Derusha and Alberto Acereda. -Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
Translation of: Cantos de vida y esperanza.
PQ7519.D3C84 1982
Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916.
Cuentos fantasticos / by Ruben Dario. -- 3rd ed. -- Madrid :
Alianza Editorial, 1982.
PQ7519.D3C8433 1967
Anderson Imbert, Enrique, 1910-2000.
Los cuentos fantasticos de Ruben Dario /Enrique Anderson Imbert.
-- Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University, 1967.
1. Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916 -- Cuentos fantasticos.
PQ7519.D3R37 1953
Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916.
Los raros / Ruben Dario. -- 2nd ed. -- Buenos Aires : EspasaCalpe Argentina, 1953.
PQ7519.D3Z46 1966
Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916.
Autobiografia / Ruben Dario. -- 3rd ed. -- Mexico : Editora
Latino Americana, 1966.
PQ7519.D3Z48 2002
Castillo, Horacio, 1934-.
Dario y Rojas: una relacion fraternal / Horacio Castillo. -Buenos Aires : Academia Argentina de Letras, 2002.
1. Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916 -- Correspondence.
2. Rojas, Ricardo, 1882-1957 -- Correspondence.
PQ7519.D3Z58 1958
Aleman Bolanos, Gustavo, 1884-.
La juventud de Ruben Dario / Gustavo Aleman Bolanos. -Guatemala : Editorial Universitaria, 1958.
1. Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916.
PQ7519.D3Z5846 1967
Balseiro, Jose Agustin, 1900-1991.
Seis estudios sobre Ruben Dario / Jose Agustin Balseiro. -Madrid : Editorial Gredos, 1967.
1. Dario, Ruben, 1867 – 1916.
PQ7519.D3Z5848 1967
Baquero, Gaston.
Dario, Cernuda, y otros temas poeticos / Gaston Baquero. -Madrid : Editora Nacional, 1967.
1. Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916.
2. Cernuda, Luis.
PQ7519.D3Z5849 1967
Beltran Guerrero, Luis, 1914-.
Ruben Dario y Venezuela / Luis Beltran Guerrero -- Caracas :
Instituto Nacional de Cultura y Bellas Artes, 1967.
1. Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916.
PQ7519.D3Z598 1967
Castro Leal, Antonio, 1895-1981.
Ruben Dario, el poeta de America: discurso / Antonio Castro
Leal. -- Mexico : Cultura, 1967.
1. Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation.
PQ7519.D3Z683 1970
Durand, Rene L.F.
La negritude dans l'oeuvre poetique de Ruben Dario / Rene L.F.
Durand. -- Dakar : Centre de hautes etudes afro-ibero-americaines de
l'Universite de Dakar, 1970.
1. Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation.
PQ7519.D3Z69 1974
Ellis, Keith, 1935-.
Critical approaches to Ruben Dario / Keith Ellis. -- Toronto;
Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1974.
1. Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation.
PQ7519.D3Z73327 1982
Gutierrez, Pedro Rafael.
Argentina, patria espiritual de Ruben Dario: amigos y mecenas
del poeta / Pedro Rafael Gutierrez. -- San Jose, Costa Rica : Editora
Galan, 1982 or 1983.
1. Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916 -- Homes and haunts -- Argentina.
2. Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916 –- Biography -- Dictionaries.
PQ7519.D3Z742 1978
Jitrik, Noe, 1928-.
Las contradicciones del modernismo: productividad poetica y
situacion sociologica / Noe Jitrik. -- Mexico : Colegio de Mexico,
[Centro de Estudios Linguisticos y Literarios], 1978.
1. Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation.
PQ7519.D3Z743 1983
Jrade, Cathy Login.
Ruben Dario and the romantic search for unity: the modernist
recourse to esoteric tradition / Cathy Login Jrade -- 1st ed. -Austin ; University of Texas Press, 1983.
1. Dario, Rubin, 1867-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation.
PQ7519.D3Z783 1997
Llopesa, Ricardo, 1948-.
Ruben Dario en Nueva York / Ricardo Llopesa. -- Valencia, Spain
: Instituto de Estudios Modernistas, 1997.
1. Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916 -- Travel -- New York (State) -New York.
PQ7519.D3Z8774 2007
Solares Larrave, Francisco Jose.
Una armonila de caprichos: el discurso de respuesta en la prosa
de Ruben Dario / Francisco Jose Solares Larrave. -- Chapel Hill :
U.N.C. Department of Romance Languages, 2007.
1. Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916.
PQ7519.D3Z955 1965
Watland, Charles Dunton, 1913Poet-errant: a biography of Ruben Dario / Charles Dunton
Watland. -- New York : Philosophical Library, 1965.
1. Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916.
PQ7519.D3Z977 1989
Zavala, Iris M.
Ruben Dario bajo el signo del cisne / Iris M. Zavala. -- 1st ed.
-- Rio Piedras, P.R. : Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico,
1989.
1. Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Limitations of the Provisions in the P-P240 Table
The author chosen for this shelflisting exercise is Ruben Dario, a Nicaraguan poet known for initiating
the modernismo literary movement in the late 1800's to early 1900's. Dario's career was cut short in 1916 when
he died at age 49. The classification system used to create this shelflist is the Library of Congress Classification
system, (LOC). The LOC was first developed to classify the book collections of the Library of Congress so that
they could provide the members of Congress with the information needed to make legislative decisions. From
the Library of Congress Classification Outline, we see that Class P contains Language and Literature. This
information leads us to Subclass PQ which defines French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literature. As a
Nicaraguan poet from the late 1800's to the early 1900's we find that Ruben Dario's class number is PQ7519.D3.
All works concerning this author have this class number and individual works are distinguished by their unique
Cutter number and date published.
In this classification system an author's works are separated into two main
parts: works by the author and works about the author. Following the Table for Literary Authors with One
Cutter Number P-PZ40 we are able to further arrange works concerning Ruben Dario. The most difficult
aspect of building this shelflist is that there are a limited amount of hard and fast rules and/or directions.
However, in many ways, this is also essential for an expanding and changing collection.
The collection starts with works by Ruben Dario. I was able to find a volume of his collected works:
PQ7519.D3 1917
Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916.
Las obras completas / Ruben Dario. -- Madrid : Editorial Mundo
Latino, 1917-20.
This work, as Ruben Dario's complete works at the time of publishing, has a class number with no further Cutter
numbers which positions it at the beginning of the collection. This leads into the section for “collected poems”.
These works are arranged chronologically by date of publication, with “.A17” added to the base class number.
No changes to the call numbers were necessary for these works.
Next comes the translations of selected works.
PQ7519.D3A225 2001
Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916.
[Poems. English and Spanish, Selections]
Selected poems of Ruben Dario : a bilingual anthology / Ruben
Dario ; edited, translated, and with an introduction by Alberto
Acereda and Will Derusha. -- Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University
Press ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c2001.
Translations into English.
PQ7519.D3A227 2002
Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916.
[Selections. English and Spanish]
Stories and poems = Cuentos y poesias / Ruben Dario ; edited and
translated by Stanley Appelbaum. -- Mineola, NY : Dover, c2002.
Translations into English.
No provisions are made for these works in the P-PZ40 table. It would be impossible to keep them in the
Selected works section (x.A6) because adding Cutter extension numbers from the Translation Table would bring
the work into the (.xA61-Z458) Separate Works section. For this reason Selected works translations are put in
the Translations (Collected)-English (.xA2-29) section and arranged in alphabetical order by the translator. This
is an example of where the flexibility of the Cutter numbers is an asset in that they allow for the addition of
future translations. The number of digits used can increase as long as they remain between the decimals .2 and
.29. These texts are also examples of “parallel texts” which are works that contain both the original language as
well as the translation language. In these cases the classification number of the work is developed using the first
language listed. It should also be noted that Translation (Collected) languages other than English, French and
German are not given a specific Cutter number section, but a relatively small “Other” Cutter number section,
(.xA5-59), which is loosely arranged by the language.
Selected works (x.A6) come next and are arranged by date, followed by Separate works (.xA61-Z458).
Due to restrictions in the Cutter numbers available in this section care should be taken when the title of the work
begins with the letters “A” or “Z”. These works must be loosely classified using the Cutter Table so that they
can not only fit into the .xA61-Z458 restrictions but also maintain alphabetic arrangement by title. Several
adjustments/changes to classification numbers were made in this section. For the following work, the original
class number found was, “PQ7519.D3A44”.
PQ7519.D3A63 1997
Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916.
Amar, amar: antologia / Ruben Dario. -- 1st ed. –- Rosario, Argentina
: Ameghino Editora, c1997.
I believe the classifier tried to follow the Cutter table number for the title exactly, however, this would have
placed the work in the Translations (Collected) in the German language (.xA4-49) section. I changed the
classification number not only to fit into the limits of this section (.xA61-Z458) but also to maintain the
“alphabetical order by title” stipulation of the section.
The next work's title also begins with the letter “A” but because the second letter is a “z” (Azul) which
has a Cutter number that fits into the limit of the section, the only adjustment necessary was to add an additional
digit (8) to reflect the requirement for at least two digits in the Cutter number.
PQ7519.D3A98 1968
Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916.
Azul / Ruben Dario. -- Madrid : Espasa-Calpe, c1968.
The next two works represent a Separate work with its translation.
PQ7519.D3C36 1940
Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916.
Cantos de vida y esperanza / Ruben Dario. -- Buenos Aires :
Espana-Calpe Argentina, 1940.
PQ7519.D3C3613 2004
Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916.
[Cantos de vida y esperanza. English]
Songs of life and hope = Cantos de vida y esperanza / Ruben
Dario; edited and translated by Will Derusha and Alberto Acereda. -Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
Translation of: Cantos de vida y esperanza.
For the Separate work, the classification number found was, “PQ7519.D3C62”, however, I felt that “C62” did
not accurately reflect the title of the work. To better follow the Cutter Table the “C62” was adjusted to “C36” for
C-a-n. The found classification number for the translation of this work was, “PQ7519.D3C2713” so I adjusted
the “C27” to “C36” to make it the same as the original Separate work and kept “13” to signify the translation
into English.
Continuing in the Separate works section, the next two entries illustrate a Separate work with a criticism.
PQ7519.D3C84 1982
Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916.
Cuentos fantasticos / by Ruben Dario. -- 3rd ed. -- Madrid :
Alianza Editorial, 1982.
PQ7519.D3C8433 1967
Anderson Imbert, Enrique, 1910-2000.
Los cuentos fantasticos de Ruben Dario /Enrique Anderson Imbert.
-- Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University, 1967.
1. Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916 -- Cuentos fantasticos.
The found classification number for the original Separate work was extended by the number “4” to fulfill the
requirement for two Cutter numbers. For the Criticism, the found classification number was “PQ7519.D3Z52”,
which would have placed the work in the General works section. I felt that it was a Criticism of a Separate work
because, when examining the MARC record, the author of the book was listed in the 100 field and Ruben Dario
and Cuentos fantasticos were listed in the 600 field. I changed the classification number to reflect this move by
giving it the same Cutter number as the original Separate work and adding “3” to signify a Criticism and another
“3” so that it could be filed alphabetically by the main entry (Anderson Imbert).
The last work presented in the Separate works section again had a Cutter number with only one digit
(PQ7519.D3R3) so the number 7 was added to fulfill the two digit requirement.
PQ7519.D3R37 1953
Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916.
Los raros / Ruben Dario. -- 2nd ed. -- Buenos Aires : EspasaCalpe Argentina, 1953.
An anomaly of the Table for Literary Authors with One Cutter Number P-PZ40 is that even though,
by definition, autobiographies are written “by the author” these works are filed in the “about the author” section,
(.xZ46-479). It could be argued that they are also technically written “about the author”, but I would suspect that
the desire to keep these works, along with journals and memoirs, shelved together and the observation that there
appeared to be more space available in the Biography and criticism section is the reason that they ended up here.
The shelflist does not include a provision for the placement of “Interviews”. They could not be included in the
Separate works category because they contain a variety of subjects discussed by the author, nor could they be
shelved in the General works section because of their distinct main and added entries. Consequently they have
also found a home in the Autobiography, journals, memoirs section.
General works are the last section on the shelf. There are clues that can be picked up in the MARC
record for each work. For example, a record with the author's name in the 600 field followed by the phrase,
“Criticism and interpretation” automatically belongs in the General works section. As previously mentioned, we
can distinguish this from a Criticism of a Separate work by noticing that there is no “600 $a. $t.”. This would
show that the work was about a particular title written by the author. In the General works section (.xZ5-999),
works are arranged alphabetically by the main entry. Cutter numbers are loosely assigned to each work to
maintain the alphabetical arrangement, ie. those works close to the beginning of the alphabet will have numbers
closer to the .xZ5 area and those works closer to the end of the alphabet will have numbers closer to the .xZ999
area.
The most critical aspect of shelflisting using the Library of Congress Classification system is
determining the “aboutness” of the work. Records vary in quality and level of detail requiring verification of
call numbers. I was surprised to find the number of records which did require “adjustment” whether it was
necessary for inclusion in the correct section on the shelf or for inclusion in the correct position in a section on
the shelf of my particular collection of works. This is where the advantage of the flexibility of the numbers in
the Cutter Table comes in. The shortcomings of the Table for Literary Authors with One Cutter Number PPZ40 are most likely due to the original purpose of the Library of Congress Classification system, which was
simply to organize the books necessary to research the functions of the Congress, and also the number of
separate librarians who have over the years participated in developing the rules of that classification without
including instructions. In closing, I would like to apologize for the lack of inclusion of “accents” for the
Spanish and French languages of the works included in this exercise. I tried the Alt+number code method but
was unable to make it work. For a paper presented physically I would normally hand write the appropriate
accent but I don't know how to form these directly on the word processor.