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- Check the Library of Congress Name Authority File. Does your creator have an existing heading? If so, use it. If you think the LC name is incorrect, or needs a death date, contact Paula.
- If your creator is not listed in NAF, check HOLLIS. Use the name you find in HOLLIS.
- If you can’t find the creator in LC NAF or HOLLIS, you will need to form the name yourself. The name must be unique so that it does not conflict (match) with a name already in LC NAF or HOLLIS. There are multiple ways to qualify a name to make it unique, but the preferred way is by life dates. Please see the following guidelines on Harvard’s Metadata Best Practices wiki (see below). Feel free to ask Paula for advice. If you need to form a new Corporate corporate name and have questions, discuss with Summer Unsinn (who is qualified to establish corporate headings in LC NAF).
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Since you are accessioning the collection at the same time as processing it, you will be creating a MARC record from scratch. Use the instructions in the MARC manual on creating a record from scratch: Creating a new bibliographic record in Connexion. Also see the best practices documentation for additional information: Schlesinger best practices for cataloging - by MARC field.
Some special considerations:
Extent: Because the item is not large enough for a box, there is no linear footage to cite. Simply list the number of folders, i.e. 1 folder.
TBD: More here on 583s?
Purchased items that have Alma stub records and item records
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