LC-PCC policy statements for part of place

LC/PCC practice: See the Metadata Guidance documentation: Place: part of place.

LC/PCC practice: Optionally, apply the instruction using a note.

LC/PCC practice: For U.S. townships (called “towns” in some states) that encompass one or more local communities and the surrounding territory, apply Place: access point for place to determine whether the term “township” or “town” should be included as part of the name. If such a term is not included in the name, add the term after the name of the state, etc. in the authorized access point. In most cases, consider U.S. townships listed in GNIS in the form “Township of” or “Town of” to fall under Place: access point for place and establish them without the first part of the name indicating a type of jurisdiction.

LC/PCC practice: Record the element using a structured description. If possible, express the relationship using a relationship label, or a relationship label in combination with an identifier or IRI, as allowed by the metadata management system. Apply this policy statement when recording: 1) an authorized access point in a bibliographic record, 2) an authorized access point for a related entity in an authority record, or 3) a structured value that is not functioning as an access point. If the metadata management system does not permit recording a relationship label for the element, omit it.

LC/PCC practice: If a local encoding scheme is able to record the value of an element as an identifier or IRI, use judgment in applying the recording method.

LC/PCC practice: If a local encoding scheme is able to record the value of an element as an identifier or IRI, use judgment in applying the recording method.