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 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
1. For fixed fields see Bibliographic Formats & Standards.
2. Variable fields
007 This field appears OCLC records and when a record is transferred to NOTIS it is translated into the fixed fields. It is entered from the Bibliographic Formats & Standards.
028 Sound recording issue number.
041 Languages of sung and/or printed texts.
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.
246 Varying forms of the title as they appear on the item.
250 Edition statement.
260 Place, name of publisher, and date of publication.
300 Physical description. In most cases this will be either "sound disc(s)" or "sound cassette(s)."
4XX Series statement.
5XX Note fields as found in AACR II, Chapter 6.7.
511 Note field listing all performers on a given recording.
6XX Subject headings usually describe the type of musical composition.
700 Name added entries for librettists, individual performing artists, or Name/Title added entries for composer(s) and composition(s) found in 245 but not listed in 100 or 240 fields.
710 Corporate added entries for names of performing organizations.
740 Title added entries for titles which appear on the item but are not listed in the 245 field.