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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.
 
For guidelines on how to write a good summary, see [https://maint.loc.gov/publish/prepubbooklink/technical-info/summary_guidelines.html Library of Congress CIP guidelines for summaries] and [https://www.loc.gov/aba/cyac/summaries.html Writing Summaries: Children’s and Young Adults’ Cataloging Program (CYAC)].  There are additional examples of acceptable and unacceptable summaries in an [https://ccsliborg.sharepoint.com/:b:/s/CCSTraining/EXOLD5k_Z49Il8ec4nTrZvsBxq11KEJ1zw634JqHQBzUtQ?e=dcU1rj older version of the CIP guidelines].
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Summary notes ([http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/5xx/520.shtm MARC tag 520]) are used 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. Include sequel information when appropriate.
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For guidelines on how to write a good summary, see [http://cip.loc.gov/CSsummaries.pdf Library of Congress CIP guidelines for summaries], Appendix B, Section III.
 
==External Links==
[http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd520.html MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data: 520: Summary, Etc.] (October 2007)

Latest revision as of 16:50, 31 October 2024

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 Writing Summaries: Children’s and Young Adults’ Cataloging Program (CYAC). There are additional examples of acceptable and unacceptable summaries in an older version of the CIP guidelines.

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