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Unit: Cataloging & Metadata Services

Date last reviewed: 04/0805/20182019

Date of next review: April 20192020

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Cataloging Guidelines:

The BSR is a standard record that specifies an essential set of data elements required for each bibliographic format. Catalogers can decide to include additional fields beyond the mandatory standards to serve user needs, but emphasis is given to access points and not to extensive descriptive data. 

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• Rare books:
     RMC monographs are generally cataloged beyond the BIBCO standard record for rare books. If all access points in the record are covered by authority records, the RMC cataloger codes the record as PCC. If the record contains provenance tracings, local subject headings (e.g. for publication date), or other headings not covered by authority records, it cannot be coded as PCC.
• Serials cataloged as monographs
• Serials; serials at Cornell may be cataloged using the RDA CONSER Standard Record (CSR) Metadata Application Profile
• Two-check original cataloging by copy catalogers (processed according to LTS Procedure #35)

Coding Encoding level of PCC record:

All BSR records carry the encoding level “blank.”  Code 4, core-level, was encouraged at one time but is now extinct.  We must use "blank" for PCC.

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