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LC-PCC policy statements for authorized access point for legal work

Prerecording

Recording

Recording an unstructured description

Recording a structured description

Option

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option by using an access point established in the LC/NACO Authority file. If no authorized form has been established in the LC/NACO Authority file, apply the option by (1) establishing a value of Work: access point for work as the authorized form in the LC/NACO Name Authority file, and/or (2) Recording a value of Work: access point for work on a bibliographic record.

Option

LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option.

Option

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

Base authorized access points for legal work

Option

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

Option

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

Authorized access points for a law governing two or more jurisdictions

Authorized access points for an administrative regulation, etc., that is a law

Option

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option for countries in which administrative regulations, etc., are laws. For jurisdictions in which administrative regulations, rules, etc., are not treated as laws, see the instruction re: administrative regulations, etc., that are not laws.

Option

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

Authorized access points for an administrative regulation, etc., promulgated by a government agency, etc., that is not a law

Authorized access points for an administrative regulation, etc., promulgated by a government agency, etc., that is not a law

LC/PCC practice: See the Metadata Guidance documentation: Community Resources: authorized access point for legal work: authorized access points for an administrative regulation.

Authorized access points for a law and a derived regulation, etc., issued together

Condition Option

LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option.

Condition Option

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

Option

LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option.

Option

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

Authorized access points for a compilation of administrative regulations, etc.

Option

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

Authorized access points for a compilation of rules governing two or more courts of a single jurisdiction

Authorized access points for other compilations of court rules

Option

LC/PCC practice: For a compilation of rules governing more than one court of a single jurisdiction but enacted as laws of that jurisdiction, apply the instructions at Option. For all other compilations of court rules governing more than one court of a single jurisdiction, apply the option.

Constitutions, charters, etc., of non-jurisdictional bodies

Option

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

Authorized access points for a treaty

Condition Option

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

Authorized access points for a protocol, amendment, etc.

Option

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

Authorized access points for a compilation of treaties

Option

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

Reports of two or more courts

One reporter or collaborating reporters not responsible for the reports

Condition Option

LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option. Use the authorized access point representing the court, followed by the preferred title for the reports.

Option

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

Compilations of proceedings, etc.

Option

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

Additional elements and designations in authorized access points for legal work

Option

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option. See Metadata Guidance documents for more information.

Additional elements in authorized access points representing laws, etc.

Option

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

Additional elements in authorized access points representing treaties

Single treaties

Option

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

Compilations of treaties

Option

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

Data provenance

Option

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

Option

LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option.

Recording an IRI

Related elements

Document Date: 2025/03/25
Document: https://access.rdatoolkit.org/en-US_ala-f1411448-0e7d-3175-9ff0-34ddfca45790

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