LC-PCC policy statements for related place of family

LC/PCC Core when need to distinguish a family from another family with the same name. The name of place must be established in a vocabulary encoding scheme (i.e., the name authority file) in order to be used as part of the authorized access point of family.

LC/PCC practice: See the Metadata Guidance documentation: Descriptive Relationship elements and Relationship labels.

LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.

LC/PCC practice: Optionally, apply the instruction using a note.

LC/PCC practice: Record the element using a structured description. If possible, express the relationship using a relationship label, or a relationship label in combination with an identifier or IRI, as allowed by the metadata management system. Apply this policy statement when recording: 1) an authorized access point in a bibliographic record, 2) an authorized access point for a related entity in an authority record, or 3) a structured value that is not functioning as an access point. If the metadata management system does not permit recording a relationship label for the element, omit it.