Scope: An alternative title is added to include varying forms of a title to an Instance record, when that variant title appears somewhere other than the title page. The field is searchable and provides added access to the patron. See Procedure #4 for additional information.
Contact: Pamela Stansbury
Date last reviewed: 10/15/2021
Date of next review: March 2022
I. If the piece in-hand has a title that appears somewhere OTHER than the title page, it can be entered as an Alternative title in the Instance record, in the Title data section, below the Resource title field:
II. Select which Type of alternate title you will enter for the material from the pop-down menu. As in the below illustration, it could be a spine or cover title, for example, or a parallel title, if the work is written in more than language, or if there are vernacular characters for a piece that has been Romanized in the Resource Title field.
III. When you've selected which type of Alternate title you want to apply, enter the variant title in the Alternative title field:
Example 1:
Example 2:
