Section IV, Chapter F
Cataloging Sound Recordings
1. INTRODUCTION
Apply AACR2, chapters 5 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 Bulletin. Call numbers are textual.
NOTE: For these and other music reference sources see Music Reference Sources in Section I, Chapter F.
2. EDITING COPY OR CREATING RECORDS
2.1 Fixed fields
Refer to Bibliographic Formats & Standards for required fixed field elements.
2.2 Variable fields
- 007 This field appears in OCLC records and when a record is transferred into Sirsi it is translated into the fixed fields
- 024 UPC number
- 028 Sound recording issue number(s)
- 041 Languages of sung text and printed accompanying materials
- 1XX In most cases the composer of the work
- 240 Uniform title
... 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.
- 245 Title of the work as it appears on the item
- 246 Varying forms of the title
- 250 Edition statement
- 260 Place, name of publisher, and date of publication
- 300 Physical description. In most cases this will be “sound disc(s).” We still do receive the occasional “sound cassette(s).”
- 4XX Series statements.
- 5XX Note fields as found in AACR2, chapter 6.7
- 511 Note field listing all the performers on a given recording
- 6XX Subject headings usually describe the type of musical composition
- 700 Name added entries for librettists, 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 the 1XX or 240
- 710 Corporate added entries for names of performing organizations
- 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.