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 …
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.