Only one week has gone by, but it feels like more. Every day something new, every day the complexity steps up a little. But it's been a good learning experience so far and as the cataloging becomes more complicated I expect it'll be even more so.
On Wednesday, I started on monographs that are part of a larger series (not to be confused with serials). This was pretty new to me; in my cataloging class (LIS 531) we'd sort of skipped over the 4XX series fields as beyond the scope of the class. But it all seems reasonably straightforward, mainly concerning the addition of an authority file to keep series titles and numbering consistent, in addition to concerns of whether volumes of a series will be cataloged separately or just under a single series entry.
On Thursday, this was given a twist in dealing with work from a foreign language series. I talked to my supervisor about access points as they relate to foreign language works with English translations, as well as about corporate or title main entry for some works.
And on Friday, I started working with some monographs that have an electronic version available. At first this seemed like a simple matter of adding a 856 field to the record, but it soon became obvious there were additional concerns about whether the online version was the same as the print version, whether it was part of it, or a different edition/printing, even if it didn't indicate it was a different printing. I'm still working through the guidelines here - but in general the usual questions of what will be useful to the user, but not confusing/surprising seem like they point me in the right direction.
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