Music Cataloging at Yale ♪ Subject cataloging
Local (non-LC) subject headings | Subject subdivisions for rare materials
Local (non-LC) subject headings §
Until July 2001, local subject headings were tagged as LC subject headings with second indicator 4. As of July 13, 2001, use 69X tags when assigning subject headings that are not LC headings, including headings that are assigned according to locally-developed (Yale) standards.
| Former practice | Current practice | |
| Personal names | 600 _4 | 692 _4 |
| Corporate names | 610 _4 | 693 _4 |
| Conference names | 611 _4 | 694 _4 |
| Uniform titles | 630 _4 | 695 _4 |
| Topical subjects | 650 _4 | 690 _4 |
| Geographic subjects | 651 _4 | 691 _4 |
Subject subdivision for rare materials §
This is a list of subdivisions (‡x) applied to 600s and 610s in the Yale Music Library:
- Bookplate
- Dedicatee
- Use "Dedicatee" following a personal when that person has been named in a presentation inscription. This varies from the relationship designator "‡e dedicatee" for the person to whom a work is dedicated (i.e., in the printed dedication).
- Gift
- Use "Gift" following a personal name when that person or that person's estate has presented the library with the physical item. Use "Gift" when the library buys an item and pays for it with income from an endowment fund bearing either an individual (Carl Miller), corporate (Friends of Music), or fund (Susanna Fund) name.
- Inscription
- Library
- Provenance
- Signature
- Stamp
Add a 590 note, for example:
590 __ Purchased from J & J Lubrano with income from the Rose Jackson Fund, 1997.
590 __ Gift of Richard F. French, 1996.
590 __ From the Estate of Virgil Thomson.
We add these to rare materials when applicable, e.g.:
| 590 MUS : Signature of Lowell Mason on cover. 590 MUS : Lowell Mason bookplate: 2139. 692 Mason, Lowell, |d 1792-1872 ‡x Bookplate, 2139. 692 Mason, Lowell, |d 1792-1872 ‡x Signature. |
| 590 MUS: From the library of Newell Jenkins. 692 Jenkins, Newell ‡x Provenance. |
| 590 Bookplates on front endpaper: Rinck's Library ... Lowell Mason Library of Music 693 Rinck's Library ‡x Bookplate. |
or to non-rare materials when they are purchased from specific funds, e.g.:
| 590 MUS: Purchased with income from the Carl Miller Fund, 1991. 692 Miller, Carl S. ‡x Gift, 1991. |
§ Based in part on e-mail messages of July 13, 2001 from Martha Conway (for local (non-LC) subject headings) and of Nov. 4, 1997 from Helen Bartlett (for subject subdivisions for rare materials)