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LAC Policy Statements for extent of manifestation

Prerecording

Prerecording

LAC Core.

Recording

Recording an unstructured description

Condition Option

LAC practice: Cataloguer's judgement.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Cataloguer's judgement.

Recording a structured description

Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Exact number of units not readily ascertainable

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Units cannot be named concisely

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Cataloguer's judgement.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Units and sets of units with identical content

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Number of subunits

Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Computer discs, cartridges, etc.

Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Filmstrips and filmslips

Flipcharts

Microfiches and microfilm

Option

LAC practice: Apply the option if readily ascertainable.

Online resources

Option

LAC practice: Apply the option if readily ascertainable.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option if readily ascertainable.

Overhead transparencies

Stereographs

Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Videodiscs

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option if readily ascertainable.

Exact number of subunits not readily ascertainable

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Subunits in multiple unit manifestations

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Cataloguer's judgement.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Cataloguer's judgement.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Cataloguer's judgement.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Cataloguer's judgement.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Cataloguer's judgement.

Incomplete manifestations

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Describing a manifestation that is a collection

Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Number of items, containers, or volumes

Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Cataloguer's judgement.

Storage space

Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Option

LAC practice: Do not apply the option.

Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Option

LAC practice: Cataloguer's judgement.

Number and type of unit

Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Describing a part of a manifestation

Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Number of units or subunits in a part

Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Location of a part within a larger manifestation

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Extent of manifestations of cartographic works

More than one cartographic unit on one or more sheets

Cartographic units presented in two or more segments

Atlases

Extent of manifestations of notated music

Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Extent of manifestations of still images

Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Two or more images on one or more units

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

One image spanning two or more units

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Albums, portfolios, etc.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Cataloguer's judgement.

Extent of manifestations of text

Single unit manifestations

Single volumes with numbered pages, leaves, or columns

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Cataloguer's judgement.

Single volumes with unnumbered pages, leaves, or columns

Condition Option

LAC practice: Cataloguer's judgement.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Cataloguer's judgement.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Numbered and unnumbered sequences

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Inessential matter

Change in form of numbering within a sequence

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Misleading numbering

Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Incomplete volumes

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Do not apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Pages, etc., numbered as part of a larger sequence

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Complicated or irregular paging, etc.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Cataloguer's judgement.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Cataloguer's judgement.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Cataloguer's judgement.

Leaves or pages of plates

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Numbered leaves or pages of plates

Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Cataloguer's judgement.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Cataloguer's judgement.

Unnumbered leaves or pages of plates

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Cataloguer's judgement.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Cataloguer's judgement.

Folded leaves

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Double leaves

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Duplicated paging, etc.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Pages numbered in opposite directions

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Single sheets

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Single portfolios or cases

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Cataloguer's judgement.

Multiple unit manifestations

Two or more volumes

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Completed serials

Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Continuously paged volumes

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Individually paged volumes

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Updating loose-leafs

Two or more sheets

Two or more portfolios or cases

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Cataloguer's judgement.

Extent of three-dimensional forms

Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Option

LAC practice: Apply the option.

Recording an identifier

Recording an IRI

Document Date: 2025/03/25
Document: https://access.rdatoolkit.org/en-US_ala-d38cae42-77dc-393d-a686-c451bc6471a3

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