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Unit: Cataloging & Metadata Services in RMC
Date last updated:
Date of next review: January 20222023
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Bibliographic Records (in OCLC)
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Use this field for the provenance note if the item has a signature, bookplate, stamp, etc. with a previous owner's name, or the previous owner is known based on other evidence. There's no need to code this or other item-specific notes in the bib record with a $5 NIC at the end; because this is a manuscript, all the notes are item-specific notes, and in fact the whole bib record is at the item level as well as the work level (in RDA terms).
561 1_ Provenance: Joseph R. White (bookplate).
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655 _7 Photograph albums. $2 aat
655 _7 Novels $z United States $y 1931-1940. $2 rbgenr
If the item has an especially interesting binding or the like, you can use a term from one of the other RBMS Controlled Vocabularies to describe it, as you would for a book. See LTS Procedure 88, "Thesaurus Terms Commonly Used for Rare Books."
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$e associated name (use this when the nature of the person's relation to the manuscript is unclear)
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Location / Permanent location: RMC, or RMC AnnexCopy number: c.1
Call number type: Other scheme
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