When cataloging a republication, the intent of AACR 2 is
to use the title page of the republication as
the chief source
rather than the original title page whenever possible. (Cf. AACR
2 rule 1.0H(b); footnote 1 on p. 624.)
Thus the source bearing a form of the title proper supplied by the publisher of the republication is to be used as the chief source for the republication.
This AACR 2 intent was to respond to the unhappiness caused by chapter 9 of AACR 1. (LC's current policy on microform reproductions is a vestige of those AACR 1 provisions.) The AACR 2 policy is applicable to republications of all printed books, not just those in Hebrew.
Bob Ewald
CPSO
Hebraica catalogers often encounter what the Hebraica Section at LC refers to as a "Biegeleisen reprints" of two types:
The "Biegeleisen reprint" (hardbound variety) has a binding supplied
by the publisher of the republication with a form
of the title proper but (usually)
no statement of responsibility, and a reproduction
of the original title page with no added
information about the republication on its recto. The chief
source chosen in accordance with the policy outlined by Bob Ewald
is *not* identical to the original t.p.,
and in choosing the cover we are choosing the chief
source provided by
the publisher of the republication.
In the paperbound variety of "Biegeleisen reprint," the t.p. supplied by the publisher of the republication *is* identical to the original t.p. (which is also included) but on heavier paper. Hebraica Section policy is to consider the original t.p., i.e. the version on thinner paper, to be the chief source for these, because the only difference it makes to the bibliographic description when you choose this one is that you don't need a note "Cover title." The choice of one or the other of these t.p.s doesn't affect choice of heading for the author either, since the two are identical, but the choice *can* affect the heading when the situation is that encountered with the hardbound "Biegeleisen."
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The following is a summary of a discusion with CPSO on the issue of the 246 field in cataloging a certain type of rabbinic reprint one often deals with. This discussion will be very dense and probably not very easy to understand, but at the end there are a couple of "illustrations" which hopefully will help.
The reprints in question consist of reproductions of early 20th-century (or earlier) works, usually published two to a volume. The two works may or may not be by the same author. The reproduced original title pages include no data about the reprint publication (new place of publication, new publisher, new date-- this info is usually found on the *verso* of the first reproduced title page). The cover usually bears a title consisting of versions of the titles on the reproduced original title pages, and so is treated as the chief source. The spine usually bears a title consisting of *other* versions of the original titles.
Following is a description of a "minimalist" example. Most every "real" example will have extra wrinkles (abbreviated terms in the title proper, for instance, which will generate still more fields), but these are the basics.
Imagine a book consisting of two works by different authors
(call them "Avraham" and "Yosef").
The original title of the first work
is Sefer Berit Avraham (we'll call the part without
"Sefer" Title A).
The original title of the second work is Sefer
Bet Yosef (we'll call the part without "Sefer" Title
B).
The cover (chief source) bears the title: Sefer
Hidushe Berit Avraham. Sh. u-t. Bet Yosef (we'll call these
Title A2 and Title B2).
The spine bears the title: Hidushe Berit Avraham. Sh.u-t.
Bet Yosef (we'll call these Title A3 and Title B3).
It's usually the case with these reprints that Title A3
= Title A2 without "Sefer."
Frequently also, titles B, B2, and B3 are the same, but that's
not always true.
Title A and Title B are the "uniform titles" of
the two works-- that is, they're the titles (without
"Sefer" or other
introductory words) of the original publications of the
works. (Those titles, taken from the reproduced original title pages
in
the reprint, are given in the 500 "bibliographic history" note.)
Uniform Title A appears in the 240, and uniform Title B appears
in the 700 name-title added entry.
Often with these reprints, though, the title of at
least work A as given in the chief source *differs* from the
original
title of the work. In my example, though the chief
source says "Sefer Hidushe Berit Avraham," the
original publication was called "Sefer Berit Avraham."
So I've called "Sefer Hidushe Berit Avraham" Title A2.
Since it constitutes the $a subfield of the 245, we trace it by setting
the 1st indicator at 1, and don't have to create another field to do so.
We make a 246 3- field exactly like
the 245$a$b, only without the $b coding, for every work
that has no collective
title when the 245 begins with a character string consisting
of all titles adjacent to one another.
We make a 246 30 (portion title) for the $a
of the 245 without "Sefer." (This used to go into
a 740 01.)
NOTE: This field may be identical to the
240, but that's not why it's traced.
We make a 246 18 field for the $a portion of the spine title (that is,
the part that would be the $a if the spine were
the
chief source), unless this is identical to the 246
30 (portion title).
We make a 700 name-title added entry for the author of the second work and its uniform title.
We make a 740 0 (uncontrolled title added entry
for an included work) for the title of the second work as it
appears in
the chief source (as opposed to the uniform title which
appears in the 700$t).
So here's a representation of the cataloging for the imaginary book described.
100 0 Avraham.
240 10 Berit Avraham
245 10 Sefer Hidushe Berit Avraham.$bSh. u-t. Bet Yosef.
246 3- Sefer Hidushe Berit Avraham. Sh. u-t. Bet Yosef
246 30 Hidushe Berit Avraham
500 Cover title.
500 Second work by Yosef.
500 First work originally published:
Sefer Berit Avraham. Place of publication
: Publisher, date. 2nd work
originally published:
Sefer Bet Yosef. Place
of publication : Publisher, date.
700 02 Yosef.$tBet Yosef.
740 0 Sh. u-t. Bet Yosef.
And here's a "schematic" representation of the cataloging for such a book.
100 1 Author A.
240 10 Title A
245 10 Title A2.$bTitle B2.
246 3- Title A2. Title B2 (no collective
title; access via character string consisting
of all titles immediately
adjacent to one another and appearing
at the beginning of 245)
246 30 Title A (portion title)
246 18 Title A3 ($a of spine title, if needed)
500 Cover title.
500 Second work by Author B.
500 First work originally published: Sefer Title
A. Place of publication : Publisher, date. Second work
originally pub-
lished: Sefer Title B. Place
of publication : Publisher, date.
700 12 Author B.$tTitle B.
740 0 Title B2. (uncontrolled title of included work from 245)
NOTE: We do NOT provide access to the uncontrolled original
titles (Sefer Title A and Sefer Title B, mentioned in the reprint
note). We do NOT provide access to the $b portion of
any title other than the title proper (the 245 title)--
e.g. the spine title. We do NOT provide
access to permutations of titles other than the title
proper (so, in our example, no tracing for
"She'elot u-teshuvot Bet Yosef).