Music Library Association Best Practices for category of corporate body

Prerecording

Routinely record the element in authority records, whether or not the term is used as a qualifier in the authorized access point.

Recording

In MARC: Record as a structured description using field 368 subfield $a.

Option

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option. Record the value in English.

Recording an unstructured description

Recording a structured description

Apply the option. Prefer terms from the Library of Congress Subject Headings where possible. Generally use the LCSH term "Musical groups" for performing ensembles. Optionally, record a more specific term if deemed useful for identification or selection.

Option

In MARC: If recording a term from the recommended vocabulary encoding scheme, indicate the source of information using the $2 code lcsh.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

Condition Option

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

Recording an identifier

Option

LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.

Option

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option if specifically required by policy or the metadata system, as stated in the Metadata Guidance documentation.

Recording an IRI

Option

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.

Document Date: 2025/03/25
Document: https://access.rdatoolkit.org/en-US_ala-e1db30dd-a398-3456-b73b-5476dc45a2dd