LAC Policy Statements for extent of manifestation
Prerecording
Prerecording
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.
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.
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
Condition Option
Condition Option
Condition Option
Folded leaves
Condition Option
Double leaves
Condition Option
Condition Option
Duplicated paging, etc.
Condition Option
Pages numbered in opposite directions
Condition Option
Single sheets
Condition Option
Condition Option
Single portfolios or cases
Condition Option
Condition Option
Multiple unit manifestations
Two or more volumes
Condition Option
Completed serials
Option
Continuously paged volumes
Condition Option
Individually paged volumes
Condition Option
Updating loose-leafs
Two or more sheets
Two or more portfolios or cases
Condition Option
Condition Option
Extent of three-dimensional forms
Option
Condition Option
Condition Option
Option
Condition Option
Condition Option
Option
Recording an identifier
Recording an IRI
Document Date: 2025/03/25
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