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

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.

Contact	Autumn Faulkner
Team	CMS
Updated	March 2020
Created	June 2018