ILS 506-S70 Information
Analysis and Organization
Eino Sierpe, Ph.D.
Assignment 2 Shelflisting and
Subject Analysis
April 10, 2009
Below
is a shelflist for Doris Lessing, Library of Congress class number PR6023.E833,
consisting of bibliographic records representing twenty (20) different works
written by Lessing and twenty (20) different works written about her.
PR6023.E833 A15 1978
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-.
Collected stories / Doris
Lessing. –-
London : J. Cape, 1978.
PR6023.E833 A6 1988
Lessing,
Doris May, 1919-.
[Selections. 1988]
The Doris Lessing reader. --
1st ed. –-
New York : Knopf, 1988.
PR6023.E833 A69 1981
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-.
African stories / by Doris
Lessing –-
1st Touchstone ed. -- New York, N.Y. :
Simon and Schuster, 1981.
PR6023.E833
A78 2008
Lessing,
Doris May, 1919-.
Alfred and Emily / Doris
Lessing. -- 1st U.S. ed. –- New York, N.Y. : Harper, c2008.
PR6023.E833 B46 2000
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-.
Ben, in the world : the
sequel to The fifth child / Doris Lessing. -- 1st ed. –- New York :
HarperCollins, c2000.
PR6023.E833 C4734
Holmquist,
Ingrid, 1943-.
From society to nature : a
study of Doris Lessings Children of violence / by Ingrid Holmquist. -- Gteborg, Sweden : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 1980.
1. Lessing, Doris May,
1919-. Children of violence. 2. Women and literature –-Africa
–-History –20th century.
PR6023.E833 C54 2007
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-. The cleft / Doris May Lessing -– New York : Harper Collins, c2007.
PR6023.E833 F54 1988
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-.
The fifth child ;/ by Doris
Lessing. -- 1st ed.
–- New York : A. A. Knopf, 1988.
PR6023.E833 F58 1953
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-.
Five : short novels / by
Doris Lessing. –-
London : M. Joseph, 1953.
PR6023.E833 F65 1959
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-.[Selections. 1959]Fourteen poems / Doris Lessing. –- 1st ed. -– Northwood, Middlesex : Scorpion Press, c1959.
PR6023.E833 G65 1984
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-.
The golden notebook / Doris
Lessing. –-
New York : Simon and Schuster, 1984, c1962.
PR6023.E833 G65155 1978
Lessing,
Doris May, 1919-.
[Golden Notebook. Hebrew]
Mahberet
ha-zahav / Doris Lesing [sic] ; [tirgemah me-Anglit G. Aryokh]. -- Tel Aviv : Am
oved, 1978.
Translation of: The golden notebook.
PR6023.E833 G6533 1989
Approaches to teaching
Lessings The golden notebook / edited by Carey Kaplan & Ellen Cronan Rose.
-– New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1989.
1. Lessing, Doris May,
1919-. Golden notebook.
2. Lessing, Doris May, 1919- --Study and teaching.
PR6023.E833 G6535 1996
Danziger,
Marie A.
Text/countertext :
postmodern paranoia in
Samuel Beckett, Doris Lessing, and Philip Roth /
Marie A. Danziger. -- New York : P. Lang, c1996.
1. Lessing, Doris May,
1919-. Golden notebook.
2. Narration (Rhetoric) --History --20th century.
3. Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. Malone meurt.
4. Roth, Philip. Counterlife. 5. Postmodernism
(Literature).
PR6023.E833 G66 1985
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-.
The good terrorist / Doris
Lessing. –-
1st American ed. –- New York : Knopf :
Distributed by Random House, 1985.
PR6023.E833 G6618 2001
Lessing,
Doris May, 1919-.
[The
good terrorist. Spanish]
La buena terrorista / Doris Lessing ;
[traduccin
de Mireia Bofill]. –- Madrid :
Suma
de Letras,
c2001.
Translation of: Good
terrorist.
PR6023.E833 G69 2003
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-.
The grandmothers : four
short novels /
Doris Lessing. -- 1st U.S. ed. -– New York :
HarperCollins Publishers, c2003.
PR6023.E833 L68 1996
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-.
Love, again : a novel /
Doris Lessing. –-
1st U.S. ed. –- New York : HarperCollins
Publishers, c1996.
PR6023.E833 L6814 1998
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-.
[Love, again : a novel.
French]
Lamour,
encore : roman / Doris Lessing ;
traduit de langlis
[sic] par Anne Rabinovitch. -– Paris : Albin Michel, [1998].
Translation of: Love, again.
PR6023.E833 M38 1991
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-.
Martha Quest : a complete
novel from Doris Lessings masterwork Children of violence. –-
New York, N.Y. : Plume, [1991].
PR6023.E833 M46 1988
Lessing,
Doris May, 1919-.
The memoirs of a survivor /
Doris Lessing. –-
1st Vintage Books ed. -– New York : Vintage
Books, 1998, c1974.
PR6023.E833 T56 2005
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-.
Time bites : views and
reviews / Doris Lessing.
–- New York : HarperCollins, [2005], c2004.
PR6023.E833
Z46 1994
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-.
Doris Lessing :
conversations / edited by Earl G. Ingersoll. –- Princeton, N.J. : Ontario
Review Press ; New York : Distributed by G. Braziller, c1994.
1. Lessing, Doris May, 1919-
--Interviews.
2. Authors, English --20th century –Interviews.
PR6023.E833 Z477 1994
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-.
Under my skin / Doris
Lessing. -- 1st U.S. ed. –- New York : HarperCollins, 1994.
Volume one of my
autobiography, to 1949.
1. Lessing, Doris May,
1919-.
2. Women authors, English
–-20th century –-Biography.
PR6023.E833 Z478 1997
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-.
Walking in the shade :
volume two of my autobiography, 1949-1962 / by Doris Lessing. –-
1st ed. -– New York : HarperCollinsPublishers,
c1997.
Volume two of my
autobiography, 1949-1962. Volume 1 : Under my skin.
1. Lessing, Doris May,
1919-. 2. Women communists --England --London --Biography.
PR6023.E833 Z582 1999
Brucker, Barbara S.
Das
Ganze, dessen Teile wir sind : zu Tradition und Erfahrung des inneren Raumes
bei Doris Lessing / Barbara S. Brucker. –- Wurzburg : Konigshausen & Neumann, c1999.
1. Lessing, Doris May, 1919-
--Criticism and interpretation.
PR6023.E833 Z583 1987
Budhos, Shirley.
The theme of enclosure in
selected works of Doris Lessing / by Shirley Budhos. –- Troy, N.Y. :
Whitson Pub. Co., 1987.
1. Lessing, Doris May, 1919-
--Criticism and interpretation.
PR6023.E833 Z584 1982
Bugliani, Francesca, 1953-.
La discesa agli inferi : la narrativa di Doris Lessing / Francesca
Bugliani.
–- Pisa :
ETS, c1982.
Italian and English.
1. Lessing, Doris May, 1919-
--Criticism and interpretation.
PR6023.E833 Z59 1984
Dahlhaus-Beilner, Barbara.
Wahnsinn
: Symptom und Befreiung : Funktion und narrative
Vermittlung extremen Irrationalismus im Werk Doris Lessings / von Barbara Dahlhaus-Beilner. –- Amsterdam : Gruner, 1984.
Summary in English.
1. Lessing, Doris May, 1919-
--Knowledge --Psychology. 2. Psychological fiction, English --History and
criticism.
PR6023.E833 Z62 1988
Doris Lessing : the alchemy
of survival /
edited by Carey Kaplan and Ellen Cronan Rose. --
[Athens, Ohio] : Ohio University Press, c1988.
1. Lessing, Doris May, 1919-
--Criticism and interpretation.
PR6023.E833 Z67 1997
Galin, Mge.
Between East and West :
Sufism in the novels of Doris Lessing / Mge Galin. –- Albany :
State University of New York Press, c1997.
1. Lessing, Doris May, 1919-
--Religion.
2. Sufism in literature.
PR6023.E833 Z675 2003
Garca
Navarro, Carmen.
La vejez como materia literaria en la narrativa reciente de Doris
Lessing / Carmen Garcaa
Navarro. -- Almera : Universidad de Almera, Servicio de Publicaciones, c2003.
1. Lessing, Doris May, 1919-
--Characters –-Older people.
PR6023.E833 Z68 1994
Greene,
Gayle, 1943-.
Doris Lessing : the poetics
of change /
Gayle Greene. –- Ann Arbor : University of
Michigan Press, c1994.
1. Lessing, Doris May, 1919-
--Criticism and interpretation.
PR6023.E833 Z72 1985
Kellerman, Henryk, 1952.
Die
Weltanschauung im Romanwerk von Doris Lessing / Henryk Kellermann. –-
Frankfurt am Main ; New
York : P. Lang, c1985.
1. Lessing, Doris May, 1919-
--Philosophy.
PR6023.E833 Z723 2000
Klein, Carole.
Doris Lessing : a biography
/ Carole Klein. -- 1st Carrol & Graf ed. –- New York : Carrol &
Graf, 2000.
1. Lessing, Doris May,
1919-. 2. Women novelists, English –-20th century –-Biography.
PR6023.E833 Z78 1982
Notebooks, memoirs, archives
: reading and rereading Doris Lessing / edited by Jenny Taylor. –- Boston
: Routledge & Keagan Paul, 1982.
1. Lessing, Doris May, 1919-
--Criticism and interpretation.
PR6023.E833 Z82 1990
Pickering, Jean.
Understanding Doris Lessing
/ by Jean Pickering. -– Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina
Press, c1990.
1. Lessing, Doris May, 1919-
--Criticism and interpretation.
PR6023.E833 Z85 1994
Rowe, Margaret Moan.
Doris Lessing / Margaret
Moan Rowe. –- New York : St. Martins Press, 1994.
1. Lessing, Doris May, 1919-
--Criticism and interpretation.
PR6023.E833 Z89 1977
Singleton,
Mary Ann.
The city and the veld : the
fiction of Doris Lessing / May Ann Singleton. –- Lewisburg [Pa.] :
Bucknell University Press, c1977.
1. Lessing, Doris May, 1919-
--Criticism and interpretation.
PR6023.E833 Z897 1987
Sprague, Claire.Rereading Doris Lessing : narrative patterns of doubling and repetition / Claire Sprague. –- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1987.
1. Lessing, Doris May, 1919-
--Technique.
2. Repetition (Rhetoric). 3. Narration (Rhetoric).
PR6023.E833 Z92 1973
Thorpe, Michael.
Doris Lessing. Edited by Ian
Scott-Kilvert / Michael Thorpe. -– [Harlow, Eng.] : Published for the
British Council by Longman Group, [1973].
1. Lessing, Doris May, 1919-
--Criticism and interpretation.
PR6023.E833 Z93 1994
Twiste, Regina, 1960-.
Die
Evolutionsthematik in Doris Lessings
"Space
Fiction" / Regina Twiste. –
Frankfurt am Main ; New
York : P. Lang, c1994.
1.
Lessing, Doris
May, 1919- --Knowledge --Science. 2. Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
-–Influence.
3. Science fiction, English -–History and
criticism. 4. Evolution (Biology) in literature.
To create the shelflist of Doris Lessings works, I selected
bibliographic records highlighting key points in her career. The selections
represent twenty (20) different works written by Lessing and twenty (20)
different works written about her. Doris Lessing is a prolific writer of short
stories, poems, plays, essays, novels, and autobiographies. Her writings fall
within many different genres such as communism, feminism, and science fiction.
In addition, Lessing wrote about the cultural inequities of Zimbabwe, where she
grew up with her family, and about women rebelling against socially acceptable
behavior, which parallels her own life. In fact, her most important
contribution is The Golden Notebook
(1962) as it influenced the doctrine of the womens liberation movement in the
1960s. Her science fiction work in Children of Violence and The Canopus in Argos series incorporate Sufist precepts, which are
concerned with the union of the soul with a Higher Being. Lessing's fiction is
commonly divided into three distinct phases: the Communist theme (1944-1956),
when she was writing radically on social issues (and returned to in The Good Terrorist (1985)), the psychological theme (1956-1969), and
after that the Sufi theme, which was explored in a science fiction setitbusng in the Canopus series (Doris Lessing website, 2008). In addition to the twenty-three
awards and recognitions received during her lifetime, Lessing received the
Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.
Based on her expanse of work, the Library of Congress
classification system assigned her One Cutter Number, PR6023.E833. In order to
determine this information, I searched her name in the Library of Congress
(LC) Authorities. Her Authority Record is Lessing, Doris May, 1919-. The One
Cutter Number is derived from Library of Congress Classification outline, Class
P -Language and Literature. The subclass PR1–9680 is reserve for English
literature. The range PR6000 to 6049 is for the years 1900-1960 corresponding
to the most prolific years of an authors work. Then Lessing is placed
alphabetically by surname at 23. Lessings two works from the 1980s penned
under the pseudonym Jane Somers are cross-referenced back to PR6023.E833.
Searching
the LC Authority Records by Call Number or LC Classification Number for
PR6023.E833 yielded 100 entries. The Author/Creator Browse of Lessing, Doris
retrieved 138 items while a Subject Keyword search resulted in thirty LC
Subject headings such as bibliography, biography, criticisms and
interpretation, family, family fiction, Golden Notebook, interviews, knowledge of Africa, political and
social views, and philosophy illustrating the diversity of her work.
Based
on these results, I began my search in my local librarys catalog and through
the librarys link to Bibliomation and iCONN where I was able to locate most of
my entries for Separate Works. However, to locate Collected Works, Selections,
Translations and Criticisms, I searched the following catalogs: CONSULS,
WorldCat, Library of Congress, Princeton Universitys
OPAC, and Bibliothque National de France (BNF). I searched MARC fields 050 for the LC classification
number, 100 for Lessing as the author, and 600 for Lessing as the first subject
heading entry to confirm a works place within the shelf.
Once collected, I organized the material sequentially
by complete call number per the Table for Literary Authors with One Cutter
Number (P-PZ40) and the Preferred Shelflist Order-Individual Authors Table
enabling correct placement in each sub-arrangement category as well as
verifying I had a representation of Lessings work. According to Table P-PZ40,
an authors material is classified and then assigned its correct position relative
to other works already in the collection by date, by title or by author. I
cuttered and verified each call number retrieved and, using Table P-PZ40, I
cross-referenced my findings to the tables precise sub-arrangement.
The first sub-arrangement, Collected works, entails
the totality of an authors work up to the point of publication. The catalogs
searched began with Lessings Collected Stories as their only entry in this sub-arrangement and I was
unable to locate a translation of this sole material, even in BnFs catalog.
Selected works consist of excerpts or chapters taken from a single individual
work collected into one publication. Many catalogs have The Doris Lessing
Reader (1988) in this second
sub-arrangement. Because Table P-PZ40 stipulated specific call number ranges
for each sub-arrangement, it was not necessary to cutter these entries.
Separate works and their translations were the easiest
materials to locate as were Criticisms of Separate works; which are mostly of Children
of Violence and The Golden
Notebook whose themes and subjects
are two of her most analyzed works in many languages. In my shelflist, Separate
works begins with African Stories,
as it is a collection of individual stories, not all of Lessings works. After
cuttering each materials call number, most Cutter numbers remained the
consistent with LC complete call numbers. For instance, Alfred and Emily actually cutter to .xA44, but the Separate works
sub-arrangement must begin with .xA61 per Table P-PZ40. So Alfred and Emilys call number had to be compressed to .xA78 to fit
within the range. Then I crosschecked the call number to the P Classification
Table XL, Guide I: Individual Works. This table instructs a title that begins
with Ag-Al must fall within .A71-79 so Alfred and Emily are cuttered properly and logically to the high-end
of this range based on the second letter of Alfred, the L. The Library of
Congress call number for The Cleft
is .xC64. This is an interpretative number as the second letter after the first
consonant, the L, does not have a corresponding number in the Cutter Table
and falls between the numbers 5 and 6. LC rounded the number up to 6. In both
instances, by using personal judgment, LC has allowed for expansion within each
sub-arrangement.
In an effort to maintain a two-digit Cutter number, I
extended The Golden Notebooks LC
call number to .xG65 to which I added the appropriate extension for
translations, .x155 for the Hebrew translation per the Translation Table and
.35 for the criticism entry. I changed the LC call number on Love, Again to L68 from L47 as it appears the Library of Congress
used Lessings Cutter number, L47, instead of the actual titles Cutter number
to determine placement within their collection. Another discrepancy between my
cuttering and the LC call number happened with The Grandmothers: Four Short
Novels. I cuttered this work to G75
versus G69, however it appears LC put this work at G69 because The Grass is
Singing cuttered to G73. Based on the
possibility of adding The Grass is Singing to my shelflist, I maintained the LC complete call number G69.
I was unable to locate Criticisms of criticisms, only
general or grouped critical analysis with other contemporary authors. As well I
was unable to locate dictionaries, indexes or correspondence under Lessings
One Cutter Number, however I was able to locate Autobiographical material and
General works about Lessing. Lessings autobiographical works are compressed to
fit within the sub-arrangements range, .xZ46-479. Although I reduced Doris
Lessing: Conversations call number
to two-digits, Z46, I left the other two selections LC call numbers the same
in order to keep the works within the range. The General works classification
sub-arrangements range is .Z5-999. After placing the authors in alphabetical
order as directed by the Shelflist Order for Individual Authors, I
cross-checked the call numbers to the .Z5-.Z999 Table which suggests
approximate range of second cutters for the main entry of works of criticisms
from the P-PZ40 Table. As .Z5 begins the range of a-g, it appears that LC chose .Z58 as the base for
authors whose last names begin with the letter B and write about Lessing.
Then LC added an Arabic number, starting with the number two, to expand the
call number and maintain sequential author-order. However, LC executed some
flexibility within the sub-arrangement because in some call numbers the Cutter
number flows into the next author range. For instance, one work by Greene
should have been placed between .Z5-.Z59 for the a-g range. However its Cutter number, .Z68, actually
belongs in the next range for h-l,
.Z6-.Z69. It seems that LC placed the previous authors so high within the B
range, the ranges shifted upwards as needed within the collection.
Once call numbers were cuttered with dates, material
fell easily in classification order with works by Lessing at the top of the
shelflist and works about Lessing at the bottom. By cuttering the Library of
Congress call number, one can understand the catalogers logic behind the
establishment of a call number within the existing collections classification
scheme and can make the determination to classify a particular work as
subscribed or to create a call number based on the individual librarys needs
and usage. LC classification schedules provide very specific instructions to
determine a materials exact position in relation to other material in the
collection and within each sub-classification.
Unfortunately,
the instructions are too rigid and do not promote enough flexibility within
sub-arrangements as in the .Z5-999 sub-arrangement where the cuttering of the
authors last names had certain authors falling within the next alphabetical
range. MARC record fields for main entry, uniform title and subject heading
help determine the context of the work along with the Cutter number ensure a
particular works correct placement within the shelflist. If there is a
discrepancy or misunderstanding on the content of the work and where it could
fit within the context of the collection, it is important to read the subject
headings and to cross reference with other catalogs. This was helpful to me
when analyzing Time Bites, because
its subject headings state Books-Reviews. However, after reviewing other
catalog and resources, I
determined that this is a collection of Lessings reviews of other authors, not
collected reviews of her, so I placed it in Separate works.
Although a shelflist is mainly an inventory of a
librarys materials, an accurate description of the work and correct completion
of MARC records including main entry and subject headings is vitally important
to determine its classification, placement and label of a work within the
collection. This improves the browsing quality of a librarys collection of
related works and themes.
References
Biography.
from the pamphlet: A Reader's Guide
to The Golden Notebook & Under My Skin,
HarperPerennial, 1995.
Retrieved March 29, 2009 from