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1.  INTRODUCTION

Apply instructions as found in section 2 of RDA, as well as 

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

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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     The composer (creator) of the work - principal performers are no longer entered in the 1XX field
  • 240      Uniform title

1XX    Main entry, usually by personal name. In most cases it is the composer of the recorded work(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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  • 264      Place, name of publisher

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  • , name of distributor, date of pressing (or estimated date) and date of publication

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  • (these will appear in 2 to 3 separate 264 fields)
  • 300      Physical description.  In most cases this will be

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  • “audio 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.

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  • 5XX     Notes as applicable according to RDA (the first 500 note describes from where the title (245) was taken)
  • 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,

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  • translators, 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

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  • not appearing in the 245 or 246
  • 8XX     Name/Series added entries

  field.