International gov docs

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

All international gov docs are now sent to Remote Storage (though a few exceptions may occur when pieces have a reference location). 

Monographs and serials treatment

• assign appropriate LC call number 

• use location rs

  • unless piece has a special reference location

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. Instead, these issues are checked in to a suppressed bib (they do not have individual order records) and then assigned the same kind of call number as a serial analytic (with the caption in the bib call number).

Only old titles are treated this way. New titles are handled as cat seps.

• catalog serial issue as monograph

• include appropriate 490/830 reflecting transcribed/authorized heading for serial title

• assign serial call number

  • already written on the streamer

  • add caption numbering to call number in bib record

• use location rs

  • unless piece has a special reference location

• use the workstat for monographic materials

  • no overlay command used in 949 string

  • no caption in volume field; that is reflected in bib call number instead

• after export, edit bib location in Sierra to reflect rs instead of mn