LC-PCC policy statements for creator corporate body of work
Prerecording
Prerecording
LC/PCC practice: See the Metadata Guidance documentation: Work: creator corporate body of work.
LC/PCC practice: See the Metadata Guidance documentation: Descriptive Relationship elements and Relationship labels.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option when the work deals with the body itself. See the Metadata Guidance documentation: Work: creator corporate body of work.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option when it deals with those works that present official statements of position of a body on matters other than the affairs of the body itself. See the Metadata Guidance documentation: Work: creator corporate body of work
LC/PCC practice for Consultants' Reports: Apply the option for the consultants' reports. See the Metadata Guidance documentation: Work: creator corporate body of work.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option only to the types of bodies specifically stated. See the Metadata Guidance documentation: Work: creator corporate body of work.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option only when the responsibility of a performing group goes beyond "mere performance, execution, etc." See the Metadata Guidance documentation: Work: creator corporate body of work.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Government and religious officials considered to be creator corporate bodies of work
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Recording
Recording an unstructured description
Recording an unstructured description
LC/PCC practice: Optionally, apply the instruction using a note.
Recording a structured description
Recording a structured description
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.
Recording an identifier
Recording an IRI
Document Date: 2026/07/28
Document: https://access.rdatoolkit.org/en-US_ala-4a838889-cc68-3530-9f02-fcfc71c23ad9