Yale University Library Cataloging Documentation

Manuscript Cataloging: Guidelines for Collection-Level Records

 

Variable Data Fields: 1XX

100 (Main Entry - Personal Name)
110 (Main Entry - Corporate Name)
111 (Main Entry - Meeting Name)

An 1XX field is required if a creator of the collection can be identifed.


100 (Main Entry - Personal Name)

Repeatable: no
Indexed: Keyword
Additional Public Indexes: Author
Additional Staff Indexes: Staff Name Headings or Staff Name/Title Headings
Orbis Public Display Constant: Author
Punctuation: Ends with a mark of punctuation or a closing parenthesis. If final subfields are subfield |2, |3, |4, or |5 a mark of punctuation precedes those subfields

Indicators:
1st
0 Forename
1 Surname
3 Family name
2nd
none

Subfields:
|a Personal name
|b Numeration
|c Titles and other words associated with a name
|d Dates associated with a name
|e Relator term
|q Fuller form of name

Instructions:
Use for a personal name of the creator of the collection. For forenames and surnames, search Orbis and the Library of Congress authority file for authority record, and use this form if one exists. If no authority record exists, create a heading in accordance with AACR2, including birth date and/or death date, if known. Consult a NACO cataloger in your unit and the Authority Control at Yale website for guidelines on when a new authority record should be created.

For family names, use the form as it appears in the collection, even if this form appears as a see reference in an authority record.

Optionally include the relator term"collector," when appropriate, to identify a person who assembled the collection but did not create the materials in it. For more information, see the MARC21 Code List for relators.

Examples:
100 1b/ |a Comfort, Aaron Ivins, |d 1827-1915.
100 1b/ |a Spender, Stephen, |d 1909-
100 1b/ |a Austin, Stephen F. |q (Stephen Fuller), |d 1793-1836.
100 1b/ |a Barbé-Marbois, François, |c marquis de, |d 1745-1837.
100 1b/ |a Morgan, John Pierpont, |d 1837-1913, |e collector.
100 0b/ |a Victoria, |c Queen of Great Britain, |d 1819-1901.
100 3b/ |a Gregory family.


110 (Main Entry - Corporate Name)


Repeatable: no
Indexed: Keyword
Additional Public Indexes: Author
Additional Staff Indexes: Staff Name Headings or Staff Name/Title Headings
Orbis Public Display Constant: Author
Punctuation: Ends with a mark of punctuation or a closing parenthesis. If final subfields are subfield |2, |3, |4, or |5 a mark of punctuation precedes those subfields

Indicators:
1st
0 Inverted name
1 Jurisdiction name
2 Name in direct order
2nd
none

Subfields:
|a Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element
|b Subordinate unit

Instructions:
Use for the name of a corporate body that created the collection. Search Orbis and the Library of Congress authority file for authority record, and use this form if one exists. If no authority record exists, create a heading in accordance with AACR2. Consult a NACO cataloger in your unit and the Authority Control at Yale website for guidelines on when a new authority record should be created.

Examples:
110 2b/ |a Hudson's Bay Company.
110 1b/ |a California. |b Governor (1975-1983 : Brown)
110 2b/ |a Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
110 2b/ |a Yale University. |b Library.


111 (Main Entry - Meeting Name)


Repeatable: no
Indexed: Keyword
Additional Public Indexes: Author
Additional Staff Indexes: Staff Name Headings or Staff Name/Title Headings
Orbis Public Display Constant: Author
Punctuation: Ends with a mark of punctuation or a closing parenthesis. If final subfields are subfield |2, |3, |4, or |5 a mark of punctuation precedes those subfields

Indicators:
1st
0 Inverted name
1 Jurisdiction name
2 Name in direct order
2nd
none

Subfields:
|a Meeting name or jurisdiction name as entry element
|c Location of meeting
|d Date of meeting
|e Subordinate unit

Instructions:
Use for the name of a conference or meeting name that created the collection. Search Orbis and the Library of Congress authority file for authority record, and use this form if one exists. If no authority record exists, create a heading in accordance with AACR2. Consult a NACO cataloger in your unit and the Authority Control at Yale website for guidelines on when a new authority record should be created.

Example:
111 2b/ |a Panama-Pacific International Exposition |d (1915 : |c San Francisco, Calif.)


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This document maintained by Karen Spicher
Last revised 1/4/2006