Visual Materials Collections: 5xx

5XX fields: Notes

Inclusion of a variety of notes will help provide collective context to the materials being described. It is particularly important to describe the contents of the group in a 505 contents note and/or a 520 summary note, as described below. The order of notes presented below is recommended based on archival collection‐level cataloging practice.

Mandatory notes and notes of particular importance to groups are listed below.

For additional notes, see DCRMG 7B. 

500 field: General note

Always make a note on the source of the title proper.

500 __ ‡a Collective title devised by cataloger.

500 __ ‡a Collection title specified by donors in their instrument of gift.

500 __ ‡a Title from photographer's logbook.

Record in a note the name and role of individuals or organizations responsible for creating or compiling all or most of the materials in the group or collection unless apparent from the rest of the description.

500 __‡a Collected chiefly by James Weldon Johnson and Carl Van Vechten.

500 __‡a Photographs attributed to James Parker.

500 __‡a Group assembled by repository.

Record details about physical forms or genres present that are not recorded in the Physical Description (300), if considered important.

500 __‡a Includes photographic prints, cartes de visite, cabinet cards, negatives, prints, and a few photomechanical reproductions.

500 __‡a Contemporary leather-covered cartes de visite album, heavily embossed; metal clasp missing.

500 __ ‡a Accompanied by official "news photo sheets," in which the photographic prints were published, 1945-1946.

506 field: Restrictions on access

When access to the material or a portion thereof is restricted, explain the nature and extent of the restrictions. 

545 field: Biographical or historical note

Provide biographical or historical information about the individual or organization referenced in the 1XX or 245 field.

545__ ‡a Angelus Architectural Service Co. was an architectural firm in Los Angeles, California, which offered mail-order architectural plans.
   (Comment: An album containing 63 photographs and 65 drawings of buildings designed by the firm.)

545__ ‡a Richard Buswell (born 1945) is a medical doctor and photographer living in Helena, Montana.
   (Comment: Archive of 88 photographs of abandoned wooden buildings and artifacts in Montana.)

520 field: Summary, etc. 

Summary notes are narrative, free‐text statements of the scope and contents of groups. Details may include forms of materials, dates of subject coverage, and the most significant topics, persons, places, or events. A summary note may be used in lieu of or in addition to a 505 note. If the contents are listed in a separate finding aid, use only a 520 note and also make a 555 finding aid note. 

If the contents of a multi‐container group are not listed in a separate finding aid, it can be helpful to connect detailed subject information to a particular area or container number so that specific materials can be located more easily.

520 __‡a Photographs of cats, women, and a few men and children participating in the Garden State Cat Club's 15th annual show, held December 1-2, 1953, at the Wideaway Hall in Newark, N.J., for more than 300 cats from the United States, Canada, and Europe. Includes owners grooming cats; judges examining cats; owners holding cat.

505 field: Formatted contents note 

Formatted contents notes provide a structured method of recording item‐level information. Elements may include artist, title, state, date of production or publication, extent, scale, etc. Consider assigning a number to each item and recording it within square brackets in the 505 note, and write it on each item. For most graphic materials (which generally lack routine bibliographic indicia), or for large groups, prefer the narrative 520 summary note to the 505 note.

524 field: Preferred citation

Use to provide a specific citation format for citing the material.  

524 __ ‡a Richard Buswell, Photographs of Abandoned Wooden Buildings and Artifacts in Montana. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

561 field: Acquisitions and provenance information

Record the immediate source from which the repository acquired the material unless this information is confidential. For group‐level records, use only for materials acquired as a group or part of a group. Alternatively, for groups of materials acquired from multiple sources, make a note in the 561 field: “Acquired from multiple sources, [yyyy-yyyy].”

561 1_‡a Presented to W.S. Lewis by John Brooke, July 1968.

When appropriate, briefly describe any relevant history concerning the ownership of the materials from the time of their production up until the time of their acquisition by the repository. When the provenance and immediate source of acquisition are the same, do not make this note. Instead record the information only in the source note.

561 1_ ‡a Prior to the donation to the Library, the collection was on deposit at the ...

544 field: Location of other archival materials

When the group forms part of an archival collection, and portions of the same collection are known to be elsewhere, record the name and location of custodians.

544 1_ ‡d Related material: Anne Morrow Lindbergh Papers (MS 829) ‡a Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
544 0_ ‡d Associated material: Bronislaw Malinowski Papers, ‡a London School of Economics and Political Science.

555 field: Cumulative index/finding aids note

Specify the existence of any separate finding aid or similar control material. Use a standard bibliographic citation if applicable. [See also the 856 field for linking to external finding aids.] 

555 0_‡a Finding aid available in the library and online. 

580 field: Linking entry complexity note (i.e., Relationship note)

Use this note to state the relationship between the materials described and a broader collection of which it is a part. Use only when parts of the collection are being described in separate records (see also the 7XX fields). Note that the control field of an "In" analytice record reflect the characteristics of the illustration not the work as a whole. The bibliographic level will be either 'a' (monographic component part) or 'b' (serial component part).  

See the MARC standard for guidance on the use of subfield 7 the 773 field -- the Control subfield. The control subfield contains up to  four character positions that indicate characteristics of the linked entry.  Definitions of the codes are dependent on the character position, so each preceding character position must contain a code or a fill character or a fill character (|). For example if position 9 and 1 are not applicable but position 2 is, the position 0 and 1 contain code n (Not Applicable) or a fill character. 

Use of a 'blank' in the second indication will generate the introductory word "In" in the OPAC display.  

580 __ ‡a Forms part of the Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection.

773 0_ ‡t Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection ‡w (DLC)93845504

580 __‡a In an extra-illustrated copy of Trivia / by Mr. Gay. London : Bernard Lintott, [1716].

773 0_ ‡7 p1am ‡a Gay, John, 1685-1732. ‡t Trivia, or, The art of walking the streets of London. ‡d London : Printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross-Keys between the Temple Gates in Fleetstreet, [1716].

Note:  ‡7 p1am

Position 0  - Type of main entry heading