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Summary notes (MARC tag 520) are required for all children's materials. They are also recommended for all materials whose contents cannot be physically browsed, such as audiobooks and videorecordings. A summary note is not required if an existing contents note is descriptive of the nature and the scope of the work. | Summary notes (MARC tag 520) are required for all children's materials. They are also recommended for all materials whose contents cannot be physically browsed, such as audiobooks and videorecordings. A summary note is not required if an existing contents note is descriptive of the nature and the scope of the work. | ||
For guidelines on how to write a good summary, see [http://cip.loc.gov/CSsummaries.pdf | For guidelines on how to write a good summary, see [https://www.loc.gov/publish/cip/techinfo/summary_guidelines.html Library of Congress CIP guidelines for summaries] and the [https://www.loc.gov/publish/cip/techinfo/cyac_summary.html Library of Congress Children's and Young Adults Cataloging Program guidelines for summaries of fiction]. There are additional examples of acceptable and unaccptable summaries in an [http://web.archive.org/web/20080828075013/http://cip.loc.gov/CSsummaries.pdf older version of the CIP guidelines]]. | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
* [http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd520.html MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data: 520: Summary, Etc.] | * [http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd520.html MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data: 520: Summary, Etc.] | ||
* [http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/5xx/520.shtm Bibliographic Formats & Standards: 520 Summary, Etc.] | * [http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/5xx/520.shtm Bibliographic Formats & Standards: 520 Summary, Etc.] | ||
Revision as of 21:39, 11 July 2016
Summary notes (MARC tag 520) are required for all children's materials. They are also recommended for all materials whose contents cannot be physically browsed, such as audiobooks and videorecordings. A summary note is not required if an existing contents note is descriptive of the nature and the scope of the work.
For guidelines on how to write a good summary, see Library of Congress CIP guidelines for summaries and the Library of Congress Children's and Young Adults Cataloging Program guidelines for summaries of fiction. There are additional examples of acceptable and unaccptable summaries in an older version of the CIP guidelines].