LC Tables P-PZ42 and P-PZ43: Literary criticism of individual literary works

Discussion:

Elaine Franco

2013-01-31 20:32:18 UTC

Shirley Williams is correct in stating that the P-PZ tables do NOT
always give instructions on literary criticism of individual literary
works, BUT that is because such instructions are summarized in:
CSM: Classification and Shelflisting Manual.
(Available for purchase from LC Cataloging Distribution Service
in print or as part of Cataloger’s Desktop)

In order to apply the P schedules successfully, a cataloger will often
have to consult LC's CSM.

Take a look at the slides from a webinar I presented last May, especially
slides 29-33, where criticism of Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club is used as an
example.

Example: Amy Tan: Joy Luck Club
PS3570.A48 J6 = Title number assigned by LC for The Joy Luck Club
Applying external tables to a classification number for a separate literary work …

Title-specific criticism: The Joy Luck Club
Apply CSM G65: Preferred shelflist order – Individual authors – Separate works – Criticism.
The cutter for the original work’s title is expanded by 3 or by 3-39 and date.
The 3-39 range allows for alphabetical arrangement by main entry.

Title-specific criticism: The Joy Luck Club: examples
PS3570.A48 J633 1996 Beard, Carla J. Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club.
PS3570.A48 J634 2003 Henricksen, John. Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club.
PS3570.A48 J638 2007 Women’s issues in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club. [title main entry for collection of critical essays]
------------
The Joy Luck Club criticism examples are taken from the LC shelflist (which it is always a good idea to consult) but the guidelines found in CSM G65 can be applied to authors and works that have not been cataloged by LC.

The slides for this particular ALCTS webinar can be accessed free of charge 24/7 at:
<http://downloads.alcts.ala.org/ce/05092012_classification_p_slides.pdf>

The full recording, with sound, is also freely accessible, via YouTube or .wmv. See the ALCTS web page (right hand side) under Free webcasts for the freely accessible archives of all of the ALCTS webinars with current content. (Webinars are freely accessible 90 days following initial presentation.)

This is a quick answer. I returned to work yesterday after a busy trip to ALA Midwinter. Please contact me
off list for more specifics, or to "walk you through" specific cases. I can summarize comments for the list.

P.S.: I have also promised ALCTS CE a follow up "advanced" P classification webinar, which would focus on the
shelflisting details for literary works, and would incorporate practices based on RDA-style uniform titles
for literary works, selections, collections, and translations. No date on that yet. I am waiting for the
dust to settle :-) and for possible LC/PCC guidance first. Anyone having suggestions, questions, or special
requests, please contact me off list.

Hope this helps,

Elaine Franco
Principal Cataloger, CMS Dept.,
University of California, Davis
eafranco-***@public.gmane.org

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Table P-PZ38 makes no provision for literary criticism of a particular
work of an author. ... I wish the tables had been more specific ... writers are
given just one Cutter and this leaves literary criticism about their
specific works without much structure.
Shirley Williams

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Shirley Williams

2013-01-31 20:51:14 UTC

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Thank you, Elaine. A colleague shared your presentation with me off-list
just an hour or so before your posting. This is exactly what I was looking
for. At last, some structure!

Shirley Williams

Post by Elaine Franco
Shirley Williams is correct in stating that the P-PZ tables do NOT
always give instructions on literary criticism of individual literary
CSM: Classification and Shelflisting Manual.
(Available for purchase from LC Cataloging Distribution Service
in print or as part of Cataloger’s Desktop)
In order to apply the P schedules successfully, a cataloger will often
have to consult LC's CSM.
Take a look at the slides from a webinar I presented last May, especially
slides 29-33, where criticism of Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club is used as an
example.
Example: Amy Tan: Joy Luck Club
PS3570.A48 J6 = Title number assigned by LC for The Joy Luck Club
Applying external tables to a classification number for a separate literary work …
Title-specific criticism: The Joy Luck Club
Apply CSM G65: Preferred shelflist order – Individual authors – Separate
works – Criticism.
The cutter for the original work’s title is expanded by 3 or by 3-39 and date.
The 3-39 range allows for alphabetical arrangement by main entry.
Title-specific criticism: The Joy Luck Club: examples
PS3570.A48 J633 1996 Beard, Carla J. Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club.
PS3570.A48 J634 2003 Henricksen, John. Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club.
PS3570.A48 J638 2007 Women’s issues in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club. [title
main entry for collection of critical essays]
------------
The Joy Luck Club criticism examples are taken from the LC shelflist
(which it is always a good idea to consult) but the guidelines found in CSM
G65 can be applied to authors and works that have not been cataloged by LC.
<http://downloads.alcts.ala.org/ce/05092012_classification_p_slides.pdf>
The full recording, with sound, is also freely accessible, via YouTube or
.wmv. See the ALCTS web page (right hand side) under Free webcasts for the
freely accessible archives of all of the ALCTS webinars with current
content. (Webinars are freely accessible 90 days following initial
presentation.)
This is a quick answer. I returned to work yesterday after a busy trip to
ALA Midwinter. Please contact me
off list for more specifics, or to "walk you through" specific cases. I
can summarize comments for the list.
P.S.: I have also promised ALCTS CE a follow up "advanced" P
classification webinar, which would focus on the
shelflisting details for literary works, and would incorporate practices
based on RDA-style uniform titles
for literary works, selections, collections, and translations. No date on
that yet. I am waiting for the
dust to settle :-) and for possible LC/PCC guidance first. Anyone having
suggestions, questions, or special
requests, please contact me off list.
Hope this helps,
Elaine Franco
Principal Cataloger, CMS Dept.,
University of California, Davis
----- Original Message -----

Table P-PZ38 makes no provision for literary criticism of a particular
work of an author. ... I wish the tables had been more specific ...

writers are

given just one Cutter and this leaves literary criticism about their
specific works without much structure.
Shirley Williams

Elaine Franco

2013-02-01 08:20:51 UTC

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A few more general comments on the P-PZ literary classification schedules and tables:

Not all literary authors are listed in the schedules, even those who have had classification numbers assigned by LC.
Check the LC Catalog (and probably WorldCat) before concluding that a classification number has not been assigned. If a cataloger needs to devise an individual author classification number, follow the pattern for the author's language, nationality, and time period and fit the number into LC's shelflist. For a 20th-21st century American author, for example, find the proper alphanumeric combination corresponding to the first letter of the author's surname and devise a cutter number based on the second letter. Then treat that author's classification number as though it were listed in the PS schedule, and follow the default table P-PZ40. Apply CSM G65 as needed.

The tables for "separate works" (P-PZ41, P-PZ42, P-PZ42a, P-PZ43, P-PZ43a)
apply specifically to literary works with their own number or cutter number (i.e., not works "double
cuttered" from the author's single classification number). See, for example, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
with a span of 49 numbers (PS1300-1348) arranged according to table P-PZ31, modified. Clemens has separate
works with their own numbers (e.g., Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, PS1305; Prince and the pauper,
PS1316) that are then subarranged by Table P-PZ41. There are instructions within the schedule to apply
that table for subarrangement. The cataloger is also instructed to use PS1322.A-Z (i.e., cuttering A-Z by
title) for "other" separate titles by Clemens not listed specifically, and to subarrange those titles
by Table P-PZ43. An example found in the LC shelflist is PS1322.C4 2010, for a 2010 edition of the
Celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County. Another is PS1322.C43 W55 1989, representing a 1989 critical
work by George Williams about the Celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County.

Chan's suggestion to use "the successive element 3" from Table P-PZ42 for literary criticism of a work by a P-PZ40 author like Kurt Vonnegut works *in theory* because the added 3-39 is what you find in CSM G65. However, Table P-PZ42 cannot be applied completely to a work like Slaughterhouse five because Table P-PZ42 does not accommodate a "second cutter" for work title.

Elaine Franco
Principal Cataloger, CMS Dept.,
University of California, Davis
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Shirley Williams

2013-02-03 21:35:22 UTC

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Elaine, I appreciate your help very much. I'm afraid I am not overwhelming
you with questions. You may use any of them that you care to in your
webinars as long as my name is not attached to them! ha!

1. As a Class Web user, I had no idea how many P tables exist. Out of
curiosity, I started typing in P-PZ1, P-PZ2, P-PZ3, etc. just to see how
far they go. They seemed to stop at P-PZ45. Until I watched the YouTube
recording of your webinar, I had no inkling of the existence of P-PZ50,
P-PZ42a or P-PZ43a. I could see all of the tables by typing in the number
but I did not know what all of the numbers are. Even so, my understanding
is that internal tables are used only when the schedules specify that they
are to be used. Therefore, my question is: Is there a need for my
institution to buy the print copy of the P schedules?

2. The problem of Chan's suggestion to use table P-PZ42 and the triple
Cutters that would result with other parts of the table is the reason I
posted by question to AUTOCAT. The use of the 3 for criticism of a single
work was OK but how could I make legitimate use of part of the table and
not be able to use other parts? I hesitated to ask because Chan is such a
noted authority but I really needed to understand.

3. Preferred Shelflist Order G65 says that it is for individual authors
when their works are filed in a single class number. Is this different
from authors which have 1 number? Amy Tan does not have 1 number all her
own. She has only 1 Cutter all her own. Likewise the author I am working
with, Ellis Parker Butler.

4. Regarding G65, I understand the section using .L55 and additions to it
for a single work, it's editions, translations, criticism, etc. However, I
do not understand the sections which use Cutters .L54 and .L56. If the
author has several original works, there will be a variety of A-Z Cutters.
There might be some works with titles starting with C or with W
, for example. How, then, can the author's complete works (Collected
works) file with Cutter .L54, after the author's original work that has a
title beginning with C? Or how can biography and criticism of the author's
overall works be Cuttered at .L56 before the author's original work that
has a title beginning with W.?

Thank you for you help and your patience.

Shirley Williams

Post by Elaine Franco
Not all literary authors are listed in the schedules, even those who have
had classification numbers assigned by LC.
Check the LC Catalog (and probably WorldCat) before concluding that a
classification number has not been assigned. If a cataloger needs to devise
an individual author classification number, follow the pattern for the
author's language, nationality, and time period and fit the number into
LC's shelflist. For a 20th-21st century American author, for example, find
the proper alphanumeric combination corresponding to the first letter of
the author's surname and devise a cutter number based on the second letter.
Then treat that author's classification number as though it were listed in
the PS schedule, and follow the default table P-PZ40. Apply CSM G65 as
needed.
The tables for "separate works" (P-PZ41, P-PZ42, P-PZ42a, P-PZ43, P-PZ43a)
apply specifically to literary works with their own number or cutter
number (i.e., not works "double
cuttered" from the author's single classification number). See, for
example, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
with a span of 49 numbers (PS1300-1348) arranged according to table
P-PZ31, modified. Clemens has separate
works with their own numbers (e.g., Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
PS1305; Prince and the pauper,
PS1316) that are then subarranged by Table P-PZ41. There are instructions
within the schedule to apply
that table for subarrangement. The cataloger is also instructed to use
PS1322.A-Z (i.e., cuttering A-Z by
title) for "other" separate titles by Clemens not listed specifically, and
to subarrange those titles
by Table P-PZ43. An example found in the LC shelflist is PS1322.C4 2010,
for a 2010 edition of the
Celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County. Another is PS1322.C43 W55
1989, representing a 1989 critical
work by George Williams about the Celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County.
Chan's suggestion to use "the successive element 3" from Table P-PZ42 for
literary criticism of a work by a P-PZ40 author like Kurt Vonnegut works
*in theory* because the added 3-39 is what you find in CSM G65. However,
Table P-PZ42 cannot be applied completely to a work like Slaughterhouse
five because Table P-PZ42 does not accommodate a "second cutter" for work
title.
Elaine Franco
Principal Cataloger, CMS Dept.,
University of California, Davis
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Young, Janis

2013-02-04 18:34:26 UTC

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Dear Shirley,

Literary author tables, like other tables in the LC classification system, cannot be used unless explicit instructions to do so are provided. These instructions usually appear in the schedules, but are sometimes provided in the instruction sheets governing the use of the table (e.g., CSM G 320, for the Biography Table).

The table required for a particular literary author is given in the schedule, you may just have to "read up" the schedule to find it. Someone used an example of Amy Tan. Her number, as provided in the name authority record, is PS3570.A48.

Tan's number is not printed in the schedule because it does not fall into one of the categories listed in CSM F 632. However, PS3570+ is in the American authors, 1961-2000, hierarchy. Look at the beginning of that hierarchy (PS3550) and you will see the notation, "Subarrange individual authors by Table P-PZ40 unless otherwise specified."

Therefore, Amy Tan's works, and criticisms thereof, are subarranged using Table P-PZ40 (the most commonly used table for individual literary authors).

The table instructions for many other authors are handled the same way. Alternately, the table may be specified in the author's caption, as in the case of George John Melville-Whyte, PR5800-5804, whose caption specifies Table P-PZ35.

Note that there are some authors for whom tables are not used, such as Oscar Wilde (PR5810-5828), because all of the numbers are written into the schedule itself.

CSM F 633 provides more information on the use of literary author tables, and F 570 and G 340 provide general information on the classification and shelflisting of commentaries on an individual work.

Janis L. Young
Senior Cataloging Policy Specialist
Policy and Standards Division
Library of Congress

-----Original Message-----
From: AUTOCAT [mailto:AUTOCAT-***@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Shirley Williams
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2013 4:35 PM
To: AUTOCAT-***@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [ACAT] LC Tables P-PZ42 and P-PZ43: Literary criticism of individual literary works

Elaine, I appreciate your help very much. I'm afraid I am not overwhelming
you with questions. You may use any of them that you care to in your
webinars as long as my name is not attached to them! ha!

1. As a Class Web user, I had no idea how many P tables exist. Out of
curiosity, I started typing in P-PZ1, P-PZ2, P-PZ3, etc. just to see how
far they go. They seemed to stop at P-PZ45. Until I watched the YouTube
recording of your webinar, I had no inkling of the existence of P-PZ50,
P-PZ42a or P-PZ43a. I could see all of the tables by typing in the number
but I did not know what all of the numbers are. Even so, my understanding
is that internal tables are used only when the schedules specify that they
are to be used. Therefore, my question is: Is there a need for my
institution to buy the print copy of the P schedules?

2. The problem of Chan's suggestion to use table P-PZ42 and the triple
Cutters that would result with other parts of the table is the reason I
posted by question to AUTOCAT. The use of the 3 for criticism of a single
work was OK but how could I make legitimate use of part of the table and
not be able to use other parts? I hesitated to ask because Chan is such a
noted authority but I really needed to understand.

3. Preferred Shelflist Order G65 says that it is for individual authors
when their works are filed in a single class number. Is this different
from authors which have 1 number? Amy Tan does not have 1 number all her
own. She has only 1 Cutter all her own. Likewise the author I am working
with, Ellis Parker Butler.

4. Regarding G65, I understand the section using .L55 and additions to it
for a single work, it's editions, translations, criticism, etc. However, I
do not understand the sections which use Cutters .L54 and .L56. If the
author has several original works, there will be a variety of A-Z Cutters.
There might be some works with titles starting with C or with W
, for example. How, then, can the author's complete works (Collected
works) file with Cutter .L54, after the author's original work that has a
title beginning with C? Or how can biography and criticism of the author's
overall works be Cuttered at .L56 before the author's original work that
has a title beginning with W.?

Thank you for you help and your patience.

Shirley Williams

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Cindy Wiebe

2013-02-04 19:44:36 UTC

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Post by Young, Janis
Literary author tables, like other tables in the LC classification system, cannot
be used unless explicit instructions to do so are provided. These instructions
usually appear in the schedules, but are sometimes provided in the
instruction sheets governing the use of the table (e.g., CSM G 320, for the
Biography Table).

Ok, I have a quick question that I'm not sure has been answered yet in this thread. (Or maybe I missed it?)

I believe a few people have mentioned not to use a table unless instructed to do so.

I have a scenario I'd like to ask about, then. Continuing to using Amy Tan as an example, if I came across a criticism, not of Amy Tan's works, in general (presumably then using .Z5-.Z999, as instructed in Table P-PZ40), but a criticism of only *one* of Amy Tan's books, maybe The Joy Luck Club.

So, I would have to, using table P-PZ40, use a number between .Z5 and .Z9 for a criticism of just the one book? I couldn't, instead, then apply table P-PZ42 or P-PZ43, and have that criticism of that specific book sit on the shelf immediately after the book itself, so The Joy Luck Club at [whatever her number is] .J69, then the criticism at [her number] .J693 ( with the 3 added on for criticism? Then, presumably another number added after the 3 so it will sit in alphabetical order with other criticisms of The Joy Luck Club)?

I may be mistaken, but I thought I'd seen this done.

Hopefully my example makes sense.
Thanks so much,
Cindy

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Young, Janis

2013-02-04 20:11:06 UTC

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Cindy,

Criticism of an individual literary work (i.e., The Joy Luck Club) is classified with the original work unless instructions are provided to the contrary (which happens most frequently with major authors). The cutter for the title is expanded by -3 and digits for the main entry. This follows the general policies on commentaries as provided in CSM F 570 (for classification) and CSM G 340 (for shelflisting).

Where tables provide a caption "Biography and criticism--General works" or something of that sort, such as in Table P-PZ40 .xZ5-.xZ999, the number should be used for criticism of at least two, and possibly the entire corpus, of an author's work.

Janis L. Young
Senior Cataloging Policy Specialist
Policy and Standards Division
Library of Congress

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