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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: Cataloging & Metadata Services

Date last reviewed:  07/21/16

Date of next review: May 2017


  1. Nature and scope of the work
    Examples:
    500 Book review.
    500 Reply to Christine de Pisane's City of ladies (1473).

     

  2. Translation
    Example:
    500 Translation of: The wind in the willows.

     

  3. Title
    Examples:
    500 Caption title.
    500  Volume 2 has title: Der strenge Meister und seine Tochter.

     

  4. Responsibility for the work
    Example:
    500 Sometimes attributed to Frederick Douglass.


  5. Publication note
    Examples:
    500 Volume 2 has imprint: London: Smith & Elder, 1873.
    500 No more published.

     

  6. Physical description
    Examples:
    500 Numbers 500-502 incorrectly repeated in pagination.
    500 Printed in double columns.

     

  7. Bibliography or bibliographical references included (504 field)
    Example:
    504 Bibliography: pages 173-174.

     

  8. References (510 field)
    Example:
    510 4 Fowler, M.  Petrarch, page 127, Pet G 104

     

  9. Notes concerning the contents of the work
    Examples:
    500 Includes index. 
    500 "Petrarch and Laura": pages 204-210.

     

  10. 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

     

  11. Gift note (541 field)
    Example: 541 1 Rare copy 1: Gift of Laurent Ferri. $5 NIC

Copy-specific notes other than gift notes go on the holdings record, in 852 $z.

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