Penn State University Libraries - Documentation

• Introduction
• Care and Feeding of Special Collections Materials

• WorkFlows Documentation and Procedures
  
• Using the Bound Withs Wizard
• SmartPort
• List of Home Locations (arranged by Library)

• Rare Materials Processing Overview and Checklist
• PSU Archives Processing Overview and Checklist
• HCLA Processing Overview and Checklist
• Special Collections Processing Checklist (an at-a-glance view)
• Searching for Copy
• Call Numbers
• Marking Dewey Call Numbers on the ORF and Book
• Referrals, the Special Collections Way
• Copy Cataloging Guidelines
• Conferences
• Sets (multi-part items)

• Record Creation
• BP Cataloging Rules
• Match Criteria
• Adjusting Cutters for Duplicate Call Numbers

The field-by-field guidelines presented here are intended to supplement, and in some cases override, decisions in Record Creation. Follow the decisions made in Record Creation for details not mentioned in these pages.

See Reproductions for creating 533 notes and other information about processing reproductions.

• Transcription Rules (General Notes and Latin Letters)
• Call Numbers
• Fixed Field (Monographs)
• 245 Title Statement
• 260 Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint)
• 300 Physical Description
• 4XX/8XX Series
• 5XX Notes
• 6XX Individual Biographies
• 6XX Pennsylvania Imprints
• 6XX Subdivisions
• 655 Index Term--Genre/Form
• 700/710 Personal Name and Corporate Name Added Entries
• 773 Host Item Entry

• Bound-withs
• Issued-withs
• Special Rare Books Materials
• List of Pennsylvania Cutters (used in Dewey call numbers in Rare Books)
• 541, 773, and 793 Fields Currently Used in Records
• Penn State Name Authority File List
• Obsolete Rare Books LIAS Location Codes (for reference only)

• University Park Home Location List
• MARC 21 Concise Format for Bibliographic Data
• Understanding MARC
• MARC Subfields and ISBD Punctuation
• ALA-LC Romanization Tables
• Greek Transliteration Table
• German Fraktur Transliteration
• Translation Cutter Adjustment Table
• Yahoo! Babel Fish Translation
• Selected Latin Place Names (Locally maintained list)
• Latin Place Names (Modern equivalents of Latin place names)
• Orbis Latinus Online (Modern equivalents of Latin place names)
• History of Cartography resources (with some good general tools)
• Table of Roman Numerals