ORDER OF NOTES: For use when entering an original record or upgrading the master record in OCLC

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NOTE EXAMPLE
1. Nature, scope or artistic form (500) 500 Play in three acts.
500 Exhibition catalog.
500 Typescript.
2. Language of item (546) &/or translation or adaptation (500) 546 English and Spanish. 500 Translation of: La muerte de Artemio Cruz. 500 Translated from German.
3. Source of title (500) Cover title.
4. Variations in title (500) Previously published as: Enter Psmith.
5. Parallel title & other title information (500)
Use 246 when you want the title to index.
At head of title: Conference proceedings
6. Statements of responsibility ( 500) [In media cataloging, Cast (511) and Credits (508) in this order are considered statements of responsibility.] [In technical reports, Sometimes funding info (536); see Numbers below.] 500 "Also attributed to Jonathan Swift"--Introd.
536 Sponsored by the U.S. Defense Nuclear Agency
7. Edition & history (500) Previously published: Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1950.
8. Material (or type of publication) specific details, (507) Scale and (513) Type of report. 507 Scale ca. 1:3,000. 513 Final report. 513 Quarterly technical progress report; |b Jan.-Apr. 1977.
9. Publication, distribution, etc. (500) Imprint under label reads: Humanitas-Verlag.
"March 1981."
10. Signatures [used in rare book cataloging only] (500) [A]4 B-C4
11. Physical description (500) Two charts on folded leaves in pocket.
12. Accompanying materials (500) Accompanying CD-ROM contains complete text in PDF format.
13. Series information (500) Originally issued in series: Environmental science series.
14. Dissertations (502) Thesis (doctoral)--Freie Universitat, Berlin, 1973.
15. Audience (521) For 9-12 year olds.
16. Awards note (586) Caldecott Medal, 2001.
17. Other formats (530) Also issued online.
Also issued on CD-ROM.
Also available via the World Wide Web.
18. Summary (520) Kate and Ben follow their rabbit into a haunted house and discover the source of the house's ghostly sound.
19. Contents (500, 504, 505--Note: If you have both a 504 & a 505, the 504 goes first.) 500 Includes index. 500 Errata slip inserted.
504 Includes bibliographical references (p. 399- 405) and index. [use 505 when you list the contents, in whole or in part.]
20. Numbers (500) [Use 590 for our local practice for UN & OAS documents], (536) for contract numbers on technical reports [when funding statement and contract numbers are given together, put both here]. 500 Supt. of Docs. no.: HE20.8216.11.
590 "OEA/Ser. L/II. 1. 2 rev. 1 (English)." 536 Contract no. N00014-68-A-0245-0007
21. Copy specific (590) Library's copy lacks appendices.
22. "With" notes (500, 501 or 590 depending on circumstances. If you think you need to use a "with" note, check with Sue or Mirtha.) With: The reformed school / John Dury. New York : [s.n.], 1970.