Scope: This is a handy-reference list of the order in which to arrange 5xx notes in catalog records for rare print materials. For details, see Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books), p.127-144.
Contact: Margaret Nichols
Unit: LTS Special Materials
Date last updated: 03/27/08
Date of next review: March 2009
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Nature and scope of the work
Examples:
500 Book review.
500 Reply to Christine de Pisane's City of ladies (1473).
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Translation
Example:
500 Translation of: The wind in the willows.
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Title
Examples:
500 Caption title.
500 Vol. 2 has title: Der strenge Meister und seine Tochter.
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Responsibility for the work
Example:
500 Sometimes attributed to Frederick Douglass. Cf. Evans.
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Publication note
Examples:
500 Vol. 2 has imprint: London: Smith & Elder, 1873.
500 No more published.
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Physical description
Examples:
500 Numbers 500-502 incorrectly repeated in pagination.
500 Printed in double columns.
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Bibliography or bibliographical references included (504 field)
Example:
504 Bibliography: p. 173-174.
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References (510 field)
Example:
510 4 Fowler, M. Petrarch, p. 127, Pet G 104
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Notes concerning the contents of the work
Example:
500 "Petrarch and Laura": p. 204-210.
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Formal contents note (505 field)
Example:
505 0 1. Introduction -- 2. The young Petrarch -- 3. Petrarch is thrown out of school -- 4. Petrarch begins to write -- 5. Petrarch's poetic achievement -- 6. Death of Petrarch
Copy-specific notes go on the holdings record, in 852 $z.
