MassCat: Unusual, Unique and Unexpected!

Original Cataloging Workform

Send to Cataloging Center via mail or delivery –- do not fax.

(Mail this form and necessary copies to: MassCat - P.O. Box 241 - South Deerfield, MA 01373-0241)

For printed materials: please attach a copy of the item’s title page, title page verso, and last numbered page (if applicable).

For audio-visual materials: please attach a copy of the cassette/disc label, and container, including spine label. 

Please also photocopy any information that is not obvious, and which could be useful for cataloging purposes (such as title page or label of accompanying material, or table of contents).

Please note that the Cataloging Center cannot create item records for your library. Once you have been notified that the record you have requested has been added to the database, you will need to add your holdings information to the MassCat database on your own.

Fill out as many fields as possible (both sides of page).

Format:  Book____            Videocassette___            DVD___            Audiocassette___       

Compact-disc___            CD-ROM____            3 ½ in. Disk___

For kits: which media is the primary one? __________________________

ISBN _____________________________            LCCN____________________________

Language(s) if not only English: _______________________________________________

Music or Video publisher’s number(s) (For audiobooks, please note publisher numbers on cassette and container, if different. Please specify location.): ________________________

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Main entry (personal or corporate author, if any): _________________________________

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Title and subtitle (if any) – from title page/cassette label : __________________________

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Variant title(s):  different form of title from cover, spine, container, accompanying materials (specify source of each variant title): ___________________________________________

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Edition (not reprint information), if other than first: _______________________________

Imprint (place of publication, publisher, year of publication) (For audiobooks, please note publishers on cassette and container, if different. Please specify location.): _____________

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Physical Description:            Last numbered page: _______

Videos/DVDs: color_____            black & white______

Size in centimeters (round up to next highest whole number): ___________ cm.

Number of volumes, cassettes or disks (specify material types if more than one) ________

Accompanying material with size/pagination/running time: ______________________________

Please check all that apply:

Illustrations____  all/most color______                Photographs_____

Maps___                                                                     Plates_____ how many? ______

Genealogical tables ____                                          Music_____

Series title: ____________________________________________________________________

Notes (closed-captioned, contents/summary, cast/reader, subtitles, dubbing, etc. if this information is not included on accompanying photocopies.): _____________________________

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Added entries – personal or corporate authors (including illustrators, editors, etc.): ___________

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For videos and cd-roms: Is info from viewing the credit screen(s)? Yes ___ No___

Index? Yes___  No___

Bibliography at end of text? Page # ____ to page #____     

Item is not paginated, but contains a bibliography____

Bibliographical references scattered throughout? Yes___ No___

Is the item a:  biography ____                        autobiography______              fiction______

Intellectual level:     Juvenile (under 15)_____            Adult_____

We need a Dewey Decimal classification number ___  Library of Congress class number ___

Define the subject content of the book and suggest possible subject headings or genre terms below: ________________________________________________________________________

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Please list here any other information that is not obvious, but should be reflected in the bibliographic record:  ____________________________________________________________

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