Slides from AASL Preconference on 21st Century Collection Development, October 26, 2011

1. Your catalog
How to make it indispensible

4. 5XX - Note Fields - General Information
500 - General Note
505 - Formatted Contents Note
520 - Summary, Etc.

5. 500 - General Note
$a - General note
Note that provides general information for which a specialized note
field (i.e., a specific 5XX field) has not been defined.
O 500 ##$aRecast in bronze from artist's plaster original of 1903.
O 500 ##$aTranslated from German.
O 500 ##$aProgram notes by Phillip Ramey on album.
O 500 ##$aFormerly known as: The unidentified soldier.
O 500 ##$aBased on a play which originally appeared in France as
"Un peu plus tard, un peu plus tôt."

7. 505 - Formatted Contents Note
Titles of separate works or parts of an item or the table of contents. The field may
also contain statements of responsibility and volume numbers or other sequential
designations.
First Indicator
Display constant controller
0 - Contents
Second Indicator
Level of content designation
# - Basic
Subfield Codes
$a - Formatted contents note
505 0#$apt. 1. Carbon -- pt. 2. Nitrogen -- pt. 3. Sulphur -- pt. 4. Metals.
505 0#$aHow these records were discovered -- A short sketch of the Talmuds
-- Constantine's letter.

9. 520 - Summary, Etc
Unformatted information that describes the scope and general contents of
the materials. This could be a summary, abstract, annotation, review, or
only a phrase describing the material.
First Indicator
Display constant controller
# - Summary
Second Indicator
Undefined
# - Undefined
Subfield Codes
$a - Summary, etc.
520 ##$aKate and Ben follow their rabbit into a haunted house and
discover the source of the house's ghostly sound.

14. 856 - Electronic Location and Access
First Indicator
Access method
4 – HTTP
Second Indicator
Relationship
0 - Resource
Subfield Codes
$u - Uniform Resource Identifier (R)
856 40$uhttp://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/contents.all.html