Do subject headings need periods?
Our practice will be to put periods at the end of longer subject headings. Short, one-word subject headings need not have periods.
In what order are multiple dates listed in a MARC record (300 field)?
According to AACR2, the most recent date should appear first, e.g., New York : Scribner's, 1955, c1950.
When an item has multiple dates, which year do we use to construct the call number?
In general, choose a date by considering the following, in this order:
Publication date as appears on the title page of a work
Publication date as appears on the verso of the title page of a work
Copyright date as appears on the title page of a work (this is rare)
The latest copyright date as appears on the verso of the title page of a work
In more complicated cases, use the following trouble-shooter.
When are square brackets required?
When place of publication, publisher, or date information is taken from pages other than the title page or its verso, that information should be in square brackets. With the advent of RDA, errors in the title or subtitle (e.g., Blue Mnoday) are no longer corrected in the 245 field with the correct spelling in square brackets (e.g., Blue Mnoday [i.e., Monday]). Instead, create a 246 field like this: 246 1b |i Corrected title: |a Blue Monday.
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