Other Import 5xx Notes for Cataloging Newspapers (500, 515, 533)

⮚Editor’s Note Recording in the General Note Field (500)

Editor and publisher notes are not generally input in newspaper records. If an editor or publisher’s name is more widely known than the newspaper, a note and access point may be included.  Observed that the editor (s) is not inputted as part of the title statement as with serials and newspapers, the editor (s) is subject to change over time. In CONSER records, editors are not transcribed in the statement of responsibility but may be recorded in a note (RDA 2.17.3).  

245 14 $a The north star.

246 #1 $a Rochester, N.Y. : $b W.C. Nell

500 ## $a Editor: Frederick Douglass.

700 1# $a Douglass, Frederick, $d 1817?-1895, $e editor.

⮚Numbering Peculiarities Note (515)

Because many newspaper publishers or editors do attach great significance to a consistent use of numeric designation, numbering peculiarities is more frequent an issue than with other type of serials and the following numbering peculiarities common with newspapers illustrates.

Numbering irregularities often appear in the first issue of the calendar year:

310 ## $a Weekly (except Fourth of July and Christmas), $b Jan. 4, 1957-

321 ## $a Weekly, $b 1955-Dec. 28, 1956

362 1# $a Began in 1955; ceased in 1968?

515 ## $a Jan. 4, 1957 issue numbered vol. 2, no. 53; Jan. 11, 1957 issue numbered vol. 3, no. 2. 

Sometimes the peculiarities involve both the numbering and the dates:

310 ## $a Daily (except Sunday)

362 1# $a Began with vol. 1, no. 1 (January 2, 1853 [i.e. 1854]).

515 ## $a Issues for January-March 1854 dated 1853. Issue for January 3, 1854 also numbered vol. 1, no. 1 but constitutes vol. 1, no. 2.

For Numerous numbering peculiarities, use a general 515 note

515 ## $a Numerous errors in numbering.

If Saturday and Sunday issues carry separate systems of numeric designations, note the separate numbering in field 515

For Brief suspensions, it is not necessary to reference in the 515 field. These often occur when there is a change in editors/publishers, or in some cases, the suspension was intentional simply because the day of issue was changed from one day of the week to another. The cataloger must use judgment when deciding whether to note such brief suspensions.

515 ## $a Suspended with November 22, 1961 issue; resumed with November 12, 1962 issue.

515 ## $a Suspended Oct. 1863-Nov. 1864.

⮚Reproduction Note (533)

A reproduction note is particularly relevant for newspapers given the frequeny with which newspapers are reissued on microfilm.  The reproduction note provides most of the information relating to the microform including the type of reproduction, dates of publication, place of reproduction, date of micropublishing, etc. (For more detail, see CCM: 32.3.3l, pg. 31-33).  Also, this confluence page.