LC-PCC policy statements for category of government

LC/PCC practice: See the Metadata Guidance documentation: Corporate Body.

LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option. Record the value in English, or in the language of the corporate body when there is no equivalent term in English.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

LC/PCC practice: Optionally, apply the instruction using a note.

LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.

LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.

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.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option if a standard list is available.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the 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.

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

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.