LC-PCC policy statements for serial number of musical work

LC/PCC Core if the element is used to fulfill the LC/PCC Core requirement for Work: numeric designation of musical work.

LC/PCC practice: See the Metadata Guidance documentation: Works.

LC/PCC practice: Record a serial number even if works with the same preferred title do not have the same representative medium of performance, if such works are consecutively numbered in music reference sources.

LC/PCC practice: Use Arabic numerals.

LC/PCC practice: When recording a serial number that is accompanied in the source by a term such as "number," "book," "collection," etc., apply the following:

1. If the term is the English word "number" or its abbreviation, or an equivalent word or abbreviation in another language, precede the number in the preferred title by the English abbreviation "no."
2. If the term is a non-English term not meaning "number" and the preferred title for a single type of composition is in English, substitute the English equivalent of the term, using an English abbreviation as instructed in Terms in English.
3. In all other cases give the term as it appears in the source, using its abbreviated form as instructed in Terms in English. If the term does not appear there, give the term as it appears in the source.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the policy statement for recording captions in a language and script preferred by an agent creating metadata.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.