Cataloging Policy and Procedure Manual

Added Entries

Most common types of entries are:
1. Main entry (author or title)
          The name or title under which an item is described or entered in a catalog.
          a. Personal author: the person chiefly responsible for the creation of the intellectual or artistic content of a work, such as composers, cartographers, photographers,
              performers, writers, author/illustrators, artists, etc.
          b. Corporate body: an organization or a group of persons that is identified by a particular name and that acts, or may act, as an entity.  This includes associations,
              institutions, businesses, governments, conferences, ad hoc events (e.g., exhibitions, festivals), and vessels (e.g., spacecraft), etc.
          c. Entry under Title: entered under title when:
                    1. personal authorship is unknown, diffuse, or cannot be determined, and
                    2. the work is corporate, but not eligible for corporate authorship under the categories of 21.1B2
                    3. the work is a collection of multiple authorship or produced under editorial direction
                    4. the work is accepted as sacred scripture by a religious group
2. Title (added entry)
          All entries other than the main entry.
3. Subject (added entry)
          Fiction works typically have not subject headings

Order of added entries:
I. Joint author, illustrator, or other coporate body.
II. Title.
III. Series.

Marc areas:
100 - Main entry
600 - subject heading for persons
700 - added entry
]800 - series added entry, persoanl name