Section IV, Chapter F
Cataloging Sound Recordings
1. INTRODUCTION
Apply AACR2, chapters 5
SOUND RECORDINGS PROCEDURES
Apply AACR II, Chapters 6 and 25, as well as LC Rules Interpretations and Bibliographic Formats & Standards. Assign subject headings from LC Subject Headings or from its distillation, Music Subject Headings, as well as Cataloging Service Bulletins and Music Cataloging Bulletin. Call numbers are textual.
NOTE: For these and other music reference sources see Music Reference Sources at the end of this section.
Editing copy or creating records
in Section I, Chapter F.
2. EDITING COPY OR CREATING RECORDS
2.1 Fixed fields
Refer to 1. For fixed fields see Bibliographic Formats & Standards for required fixed field elements.
2. Variable 2 Variable fields
- 007 This field appears in OCLC records and when a record is transferred
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- into Sirsi it is translated into the fixed fields
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- 024 UPC number
- 028 Sound recording issue number
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- (s)
- 041 Languages of sung text and
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- printed
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- accompanying materials
- 1XX
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- In most cases
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- the composer of the
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- work
- 240 Uniform title
(s) but it may be a single artist who is performing works by several different composers.
240 " ... the particular title by which a work is to be identified for cataloging purposes , when the work has appeared under varying titles. The purpose of the uniform title is to bring together records for a work entered under ... variant titles." See AACR II, Chapter 25.
- 245 Title of the work as it appears on the item
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- 246 Varying forms of the title
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- 250 Edition statement
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- 260 Place, name of publisher, and date of publication
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- 300 Physical description. In most cases this will be
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- “sound disc(s)
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- .” We still do receive the occasional “sound cassette(s).
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- ”
- 4XX Series
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- statements.
- 5XX Note fields as found in
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- AACR2,
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- chapter 6.7
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- 511 Note field listing all the performers on a given recording
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- 6XX Subject headings usually describe the type of musical composition
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- 700 Name added entries for librettists, translators,
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- editors, etc. or Name/Title added entries for composer(s) and composition(s) found in the 245 and/or in the 505 but not listed in
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- the 1XX or 240
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- 710 Corporate added entries for names of performing organizations
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- 740 Title added entries for titles not appearing in the 245 or 246
- 8XX Name/Series added entries
Prepared by: Keith Chapman
Last updated: August 3, 2007
Index terms: Sound recording cataloging which appear on the item but are not listed in the 245 field.