A handbook of examples for use in authority records

Since I have been doing a lot of authority work, I have needed to know a lot about the standard ways of creating authority records. That is where this resource comes in handy. A handy handbook, if you will.

Michelle Koth at Yale has compiled this listing of examples and standards in order to show proper etiquette in creating the citations used in authority records (i.e. th 670, 667, and 675 fields). Also included is a list of the standard wording and abbreviation for the most commonly used resources, to save time in typing the names of reference resources, but also to make sure that the abbreviations are clear and all the same for the same resource.

Table of Contents:

670 field, subfield a: citing main entry in the 670; standard ways of citing various reference and bibliographic sources; citing reference sources and databases

670 field, subfield b: indicating location of information cited from the item being cataloged; citing information found in the reference source; citing information from bibliographic records

Other: citing internet resources; capitalization of key, opus, and number; communications with people; examples of 667 and 675 fields; PVRs; modifying machine-derived authority records; procedures for removing a person from an undifferentiated name heading; procedures for adding a death date to a heading with an open date