Music Library Association Best Practices for place of origin of work

Prerecording

Record the element in authority records if readily ascertainable. Record country or local place within a country, as appropriate. Record the element in bibliographic records if deemed useful for identification or selection.

LC/PCC Core when needed to differentiate a work from another work with the same title or from the name of an agent.

LC practice: For moving image resources, the cataloger is strongly encouraged to record the place of origin of the work. Use the place of distribution when the actual place is not known.

LC/PCC practice: See the Metadata Guidance documentation: Works.

LC/PCC practice: See the Metadata Guidance documentation: Series/subseries: Work: place of origin of work.

Recording

In MARC: Record as a structured description using field 370 subfield $g.

See examples in MARC format: place of origin of work

Recording an unstructured description

Recording a structured description

Prefer terms from the Library of Congress Name Authority File or Library of Congress Subject Headings when available.

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

Recording an identifier

Recording an IRI

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Document Date: 2025/06/06
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