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245 (Title Statement)

Required for all records.

All titles:

  • Note the source of the title in a 500 note.

Examples:

500__‡a Title from caption.

500__‡a Title from cover.

Devised titles:

  • Use brackets.

  • Generally, begin with a physical format, followed by subject content.

  • End with period.

  • Use standard note: 500__‡a Title devised by cataloger.

Examples:

245 10 ‡a [Photographs of an expedition to Alaska on the U.S.S. Bear].

245 10 ‡a [Panoramic photograph of Leadville, Colorado].

245 10 ‡a [Drawings of Fort Davis and Fort Lancaster].

Panoramic photograph consisting of more than one print:

  • Identify as a single photograph in title

245 10 ‡a [Panoramic photograph of …].

  • Give count of prints in physical description

300 ‡a 4 photographs …


264 (Production)

Required for all records.

  • Use standard terms. Record supplied standard terms in square brackets. Bracket supplied elements separately.

  • End with a period unless another mark of punctuation is present.

First indicator       

[ _ ] Not applicable

Second indicator

0 Production

Subfield ‡a (place of production or creation):

Required for single items; optional for collections.

  • Record a city and/or country, or other place of production, in a standard form, preferably conforming to LCSH, but without abbreviations or parentheses. Record supplied standard terms in square brackets.

  • For multiple places, record either all places, some places with omissions indicated, or a geographic term encompassing all places.

  • For unidentified places, use standard language, in square brackets: ‡a [Place not identified]

  • Note the source of a supplied place, using standard language:

500__‡a Place of creation supplied by cataloger.

  • Optionally, note places in transcribed form

500__‡a Place of creation on verso: NYC.

Subfield ‡b (publisher):

Required when present.

  • Precede ‡b with a colon.

  • Use only for materials issued by a publisher.

  • Transcribe, or optionally supply in standard form, using brackets.

Subfield ‡c (date):

Required.

  • Precede ‡c with a comma.

  • Record date or date span of production in a standard form. Record a supplied standard from in square brackets.

  • Supplied dates:

    • If undated, estimate at least a century.

    • Use hyphens for year spans.

    • Spell out “circa.”

    • Optionally include a bulk span.

    • Use square brackets.

    • Note the source of a supplied date, using standard language:

                        500__‡a Date of creation supplied by cataloger

  • Optionally, note dates in transcribed from:

Example:

500__‡a Date of creation in caption: Sept 12-16, 75.

Examples:

264 _0 ‡a New York : ‡b Acme Publishing, ‡c 1890.

264 _0 ‡a [San Francisco, California] ; [Las Vegas, Nevada], ‡c 1925.

500__‡a Places of creation on versos: “San Fran, Calif” and “Las Veg, Nev”. [optional note]

264 _0 ‡c [circa 1940]

264 _0 ‡c [1882-1902]

264 _0 ‡a [Germany], ‡c [1900-1950, bulk 1915-1932]

500__‡a Place of creation and date supplied by cataloger.

264 _0 ‡c [19th century]

500__‡a Date of creation supplied by cataloger.