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Unit: Cataloging & Metadata Services
Date last updated: 04/0605/20162017
Date of next review: March 20172018
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For pre-1800 European imprints and pre-1821 American imprints, we trace the publication date, printer, and publisher. For History of Science and Icelandic materials, we trace the date, printer, and publisher for all pre-1900 imprints.
650 _4 [Date] for publication date
651 _4 [Place]$vImprints $v Imprints (printer/publisher's name)
Examples:
650 _4 1793
651 _4 London (England) $vImprints $v Imprints (Millar, Andrew)
For imprints of any date, we trace provenance, i.e. the names of former owners of the book, using appropriate MARC relator terms in $e to designate their relation to the book.
700 1_ (or 710 2_) for provenance
If the person signed the book: ",$e former ownersigner" at the end
If the person put a bookplate or stamp in the book: ",$e former owner" at the end
If the book was inscribed to someone else by the person: ",$e inscriber" at the end
If the book was inscribed to the person: ",$e former owner" at the end
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The provenance note itself goes in 852 $z (a public note) on the MARC holdings record.
Example:
852 00 $brmc $kRare Books $hBX1673 $b rmc $k Rare Books $h BX1673 $i .L62 $zProvenance$z Provenance: Andrew Dickson White (bookplate).
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Examples:
700 1_ Zaehnsdorf, $e binder. (Add $5 NIC at end of this field if the binding is copy-specific)
710 2_ Black Sparrow Press, $e publisher.
We do not trace donors. (When we traced them in the past, confusion resulted when patrons searched under authors who were also donors.) Instead, we make a 541 note for a donor (with 1st indicator 1), unless s/he wishes to remain anonymous. Although it is copy-specific, this note is included in the bibliographic record (instead of the holdings record) in order to enable donors or Alumni Affairs staff to retrieve all the books given by a particular donor, by doing a simple keyword search.
Example:
541 1 $aRare $3 Rare copy 1: $c Gift of $a M.H. Abrams. $5NIC