Marc 21 basic level is the standard format for all originally-entered content notes
Use 505 0# For complete content
Use 505 1# For incomplete content (not all are available)
Use 505 2# For partial content (all available, but selectively listed)
Use #–# in between titles.
If titles written by different authors, list using #/# to separate title from author, just like in a 245 a field, using connective words between authors like ‘by” or “and” only if they appear in the source.
You can use RDA/AARC2 format for all added content notes, regardless of rules used in the rest of the record.
Only capitalize the first word in a title and proper nouns.
(work is Essays and reviews, .b11926065)
505 0# Theory of poetry– Reviews of British and continental authors–
Reviews of American authors and American literature– Magazines and criticism
–The literary and social scene– Articles and marginalia.
(work is “Eric Clapton’s lover” and other stories…, .b14075416)
505 0# Eric Clapton’s lover / A. Beattie–Virginia in the window / H. Bennett– Where she was / K. Cherry — A walk to Shinabaru / L. Dunning — Sweet Armegeddon / W. Hoffman — Journalism / W. Just.
Several titles by same author (titles separated by semicolons). Use the #–# between works by an author)
(work is Stories from six authors, .b11429690)
505 0# The basement room; Across the bridge; When Greek meets Greek; The hint of an explanation/ Graham Greene — The life and work of Professor Roy Millen; The circus in the attic; Blackberry winter/ Robert Penn Warren– Araby; Counterparts; The dead / James Joyce — Barn burning; A rose for Emily; The bear / William Faulkner — The figure in the carpet; The lesson of the master; The madonna of the future / Henry James– An outpost of progress ; The secret sharer; Youth / James Conrad.
Sections
Enter section titles closing with a period before the contents of that section. Avoid SHOUTING with all-caps to distinguish sections from titles.
(work is The urban wilderness, .b17706178)
NOT
505 0# TAKING UP THE LAND. Tradition as determinant: New England folk planning, the weight of English custom, resistance to change — Saving yesterday’s property: management of land, zoning, city planning, and interstate highways …
BUT
505 0# Taking up the land. Tradition as determinant: New England folk planning, the weight of English custom, resistance to change — Saving yesterday’s property; management of land, zoning, city planning, and interstate highways — Building a nation of cities. The engine of private enterprise: New York 1820-1870: commerce, canals, and sweatshops — The segregated city: Chicago, 1870-1920: factories, railroads, and skyscrapers — The new freedom: Los Angeles 1920- : bureaucracy, racism, and automobiles — The past in the present. The inheritance of the neighborhoods: processing migrants by class, race, and religion; four-part cultures — Coping with the urban environment: public crises and private benefit: the response of charity, reform, and science — The neglect of everyday life: pouring money into old institutions; housing and health care — Choice and community: summary.
Since 505 is repeatable, sections with extensive titles can be “paragraphed” as follows. Note the use of the 8 indicator. This improves the readability of the note.
505 0# Taking up the land. Tradition as determinant: New England folk planning, the weight of English custom, resistance to change — Saving yesterday’s property: management of land, zoning, city planning, and interstate highways.
505 8# Building a nation of cities. The engine of private enterprise: New York 1820-1870: commerce, canals, and sweatshops — The segregated city: Chicago, 1870-1920: factories, railroads, and skyscrapers — The new freedom: Los Angeles 1920- : bureaucracy, racism, and automobiles.
505 8# The past in the present. The inheritance of neighborhoods: processing migrants by class, race, and religion; four-part cultures — Coping with the urban environment: public crises and private benefit: the response of charity, reform. and science — The neglect of everyday life: pouring money into old institutions; housing and health care — Choice and community: summary.
rev. May 2017 SMD