Collection Services: Cataloging
MARC Holdings
Policy
The LSU Libraries record holdings for bibliographic items according to national standards unless otherwise stated.
- Holdings will be recorded at Level 4 whenever possible.
- Retrospective holdings and electronic resource holdings will be recorded at Level 3.
- Holdings will be fully compressed when they are continuous and complete.
- Holdings will be partially compressed whenever volumes are incomplete.
- Gaps will be represented by commas.
- Nongap breaks will be represented by semicolons.
- Separate statements will be used whenever clarity is an issue.
Guidelines for Recording Holdings
- MARC Fixed Fields
- MARC Variable Fields
- Punctuation
- Captions
- Enumeration
- Chronology
- Extent of Unit
- Name of Unit
- Compression
- Gaps and Nongap Breaks
- Particular Holdings Situations:
- Legal codes and statutes
- Music score(s) + part(s)
- Sound recordings
- Textbook sets
- Unbound fascicles
