Summary: Instructions for cataloging government documents produced by international bodies & countries.
General info
No stickers or stamps are needed for these materials, aside from the gov doc date stamps applied by Acquisitions. Received materials are generally routed as follows:
Monographs → copy cataloging or cat sep shelves
Serials → adds to CatMan (currently Lynn); new titles to a serials cataloger (Loretta Fiacco, Emily Sanford, or Joshua Barton)
Hybrids → gov doc hybrid shelf
Monographs and serials treatment
assign appropriate LC call number
use location rs
Hybrids treatment
These are analyzed issues of serial titles, but the usual cross-linking between a main serial bib and monographic bibs for each issue is not performed. Essentially, just catalog like a monograph, but assign the call number as if the piece were a serial analytic. Only old titles are treated this way. New titles are handled as cat seps.
catalog serial issue as monograph
include 490/830 with serial title
assign serial call number
already written on the streamer
add caption numbering to call number
use location rs
use the workstat for monographic materials
Policies
As of June 2018, international gov docs are cataloged like normal print resources, with just a few extra considerations.
Historically, these materials received red stickers, were sometimes given special call numbers, and were housed in the Main Library on 3 West. These practices are generally obsolete now.
Note that US government documents are handled by a record loading procedure facilitated by Catalog Maintenance, and assigned SUDOC call numbers. Catalogers almost never see US gov docs in their workflows.