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Unit: Cataloging & Metadata Services
Date last reviewed:
Date of next review: May 20232025
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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).
Translation
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Examples:
500 Translation of: The wind in the willows.
500 Parallel text in Catalan and English.
Title
Examples:
500 Caption title.
500 Volume 2 has title: Der strenge Meister und seine Tochter.
500 Published in Great Britain under title: ...
500 Previous edition published under title: ...
Responsibility for the work
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Examples:
500 Attributed to Frederick Douglass.
500 Illustrated by ... (if the illustrator is known but is not named on cover or title page)
Publication note
Examples:
500 Volume 2 has imprint: London: Smith & Elder, 1873.
500 No more published.
500 Volume 1 published in 1782, volume 2 in 1777, volume 3 in 1779, and volume 4 in 1778.
Physical description
Examples:
500
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Last page incorrectly numbered 153.
500 Printed in double columns.
Bibliography or bibliographical references included (504 field)
Example: 504 Bibliography: pages 173-174.
References (510 field, used to cite a bibliography where the book is described)
Example: 510 4 Fowler, M. Petrarch,
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$c page 127, Pet G 104
Notes concerning the contents of the work
Examples:
500 Includes index.
500 "Petrarch and Laura": pages 204-210.
Formal contents note (505 field)
Example: 505 0 1. Introduction -- 2. The young Petrarch -- 3. Petrarch's early poetry -- 5. Petrarch's poetic achievement -- 6. Death of Petrarch
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Bound with" note (
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for titles issued together)
Example: 501
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Bound with: New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the spring of the air, and its effects ... / By the Honorable Robert Boyle Esq;. [2nd ed.] Oxford : Printed by H. Hall, printer to the University, for Tho. Robinson, 1662. -- An examen of Mr. T. Hobbes his Dialogus physicus de naturâ aëris. As far as it concerns Mr. R. Boyle's book of New experiments ... / by the author of those experiments. London : Printed by J.G. for Thomas Robinson ..., 1662. Issued together.
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titles issued separately and bound together after publication, put the "
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Bound with" note on the holdings record in FOLIO, since it's a copy-specific note in this case.
Gift
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note(holdings note
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in FOLIO) (Note type: Source of acquisition)
For more information, see LTS Procedure 149, Gift Notes.