DRAFT, 12/01/1998
APPENDIX D
M/B/RS POLICY ON UNIFORM TITLES
Contents
Introduction
D1. Formulation of uniform titles
D2. Uniform title main entry headings
D3. Uniform title added entries
D4. Versions
D5. Analytical title added entries from contents notes
D6. Trailers
D7. Television series
D8. Television programs (not a series)
D9. Uniform title series added entries (non-television)
Introduction
These guidelines provide a consistent policy for the use and formulation of uniform titles. A uniform title is the title used to collocate original works, their subsequent manifestations and related non-moving image works. The original release or broadcast title serves as the uniform title.
Within the general function of collocation, the uniform title may be used for several purposes. Uniform titles may be used for several purposes: to organize the catalog so that related works file together; to link moving image works, i.e., versions and works produced simultaneously in multiple languages; to provide access by title to works included on another work; to provide the established form of a series title when the established form does not appear on the work; to connect moving image works to related non-moving image works; to provide subject access to moving image work represented by its uniform title.
D1. Formulation of uniform titles
Use the original release or broadcast title in the country of origin as the uniform title. For works produced simultaneously in multiple languages, use the title in the language of the version being cataloged as the uniform title. Connect each version with the uniform title added entry heading(s) of the other version(s).
A uniform title should include one of the following qualifiers: (Motion picture) or (Television program). If a work was both aired on television and shown theatrically, use the qualifier for the original distribution. If the original distribution is unknown, use the qualifier (Motion picture). Other titles by which the work is known should be recorded as cross-references on the authority record. Do not use the qualifier (Motion picture) on uniform title series added entry for non-television series.
Use the following qualifiers to break conflicts between works with the same uniform titles, in this order:
130 0# $a King Kong (Motion picture : 1933) 130 0# $a King Kong (Motion picture : 1979)
If the original release or broadcast title is unknown, use any known title as the uniform title.
D2. Uniform title main entry headings
If the title of the work being cataloged has been used as a uniform title on a related work, use it also as the uniform title main entry heading on the work being cataloged.
D3. Uniform title added entries
Uniform title added entries are made for works related to or associated with the work being cataloged. Such added entries represent actual separate works, which have their own bibliographic data.
D4. Versions
Use a uniform title to link an original version of a work to all subsequent versions of that work . Use the uniform title as the main entry heading on the bibliographic record for the original version. Give the title of the original version in a note and make a uniform title added entry for the original version on the bibliographic record(s) for the subsequent version(s). Explanatory notes may be given on the versions.
130 0# $a Stardust (Motion picture)
245 10 $a Stardust / $c Morgan ; director, Melville Brown.
500 $a Re-edited version released in the United States under
the title He loved an actress.
245 00 $a He loved an actress / $c Morgan ; director, Melville
Brown.
250 ## $a [Re-edited version] / $b Biltmore Pictures.
500 ## $a Original version released in Great Britain in 1937
under the title Stardust.
730 0# $a Stardust (Motion picture)
For works produced simultaneously in multiple languages, use the uniform title of the language version being cataloged as the main entry heading on the bibliographic for it. Connect each version with the uniform title added entry heading of the other version(s).
130 0# $a Coup de grâce (Motion picture)
245 10 $a Coup de grâce / $c Argos films, Bioskop Film ;
director, Volker Schlöndorff ; producer, Eberhard
Junkersdorf ; screenplay, Genevieve Dormann, Margarethe
von Trotta, Jutta Bruckner.
250 ## $a [French language version].
257 ## $a France ; Germany (West)
260 ## $a [France : $b s.n., $c 1976]
500 ## $a German language version released under the title, Der
Fangschuss.
730 0# $a Fangschuss (Motion picture)
130 0# $a Fangschuss (Motion picture)
245 14 $a Der Fangschuss / $c Argos films, Bioskop Film ;
director, Volker Schlöndorff ; producer, Eberhard
Junkersdorf ; screenplay, Genevieve Dormann, Margarethe
von Trotta, Jutta Bruckner.
250 ## $a [German language version].
257 ## $a France ; Germany (West)
260 ## $a Germany (West) : $b Cine-International Filmvertrieb, $c
1976.
500 ## $a French language version released under the title, Coup
de grâce.
730 0# $a Coup de grâce (Motion picture)
D5. Analytical title added entries from contents notes
Access may be provided to titles in contents notes with uniform title analytical added entries. Add uniform title main entry headings to existing bibliographic records as necessary.
245 00 $a Cartoon classics. n Volume 14, p Silly symphonies--
animal tales / $c Walt Disney Productions.
505 0# $a Monkey melodies -- The spider and the fly -- peculiar
penguins -- Cock o' the walk -- More kittens -- Elmer
Elephant.
730 #2 $a Monkey melodies (Motion picture)
730 #2 $a Spider and the fly (Motion picture)
730 #2 $a Peculiar penguins (Motion picture)
730 #2 $a Cock o' the walk (Motion picture)
730 #2 $a More kittens (Motion picture)
730 #2 $a Elmer Elephant (Motion picture)
(A compilation of several works.)
130 0# $a Spider and the fly (Motion picture)
245 14 $a The spider and the fly / $c Walt Disney ; director,
Wilfred Jackson.
D6. Trailers
Usually do not put a uniform title added entry on records for trailers as in most cases they would be the same as the title main entry. If a trailer which needs a uniform title added entry is encountered, treat the trailer as a related work following the appropriate guidelines.
D7. Television series
On the bibliographic record for an episode of a television series, use only a uniform title for the series title with the episode title. The qualifier "Television program" should follow the episode title rather than the series title.
If an authority record and/or a uniform title added entry for a television series is found for the series title alone, usually do not use it on the bibliographic record for an episode of the series because that uniform title relates to the series in its entirety, and each episode of a television series is cataloged separately.
100 1# $a Fox, Charles, $d 1940-
245 14 $a The man who could be king : $b [from] The paper chase /
$c music, Charles Fox.
730 #2 $a Paper chase. $p Man who could be king (Television
program)
(A music score for an episode of a television series.)
130 0# $a Paper chase. $p The man who could be king (Television
program)
245 14 $a The paper chase. $p The man who could be king / $c
Twentieth Century-Fox Television ; directed by Gwen
Arner ; produced by Robert Lewin.
(An episode of a television series.)
D8. Television programs (not a series)
Connect a work related to a television program, which is not a television series, with the uniform title of the program. Use a uniform title added entry on the record for the related work and a uniform title main entry heading on the record for the television program.
100 10 $a Lewis, Thomas S. W.
245 10 $a Empire of the air : $b the men who made radio / $c Tom
Lewis.
730 0# $a Empire of the air (Television program)
(The companion book to the television program.)
130 0# $a Empire of the air (Television program)
245 10 $a Empire of the air : $b the men who made radio / $c a
Florentine Films production ; produced in association
with WETA-TV, Washington ; director and executive
producer, Ken Burns ; produced by Ken Burns, Morgan
Wesson, Tom Lewis ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward ;
additional writing, Tom Lewis, Ken Burns.
(The television program.)
D9. Uniform title series added entries (non-television)
If the series title on the work or in secondary sources does not match the established form of the series title, use the established form as a uniform title series added entry on the work.
245 00 $a Planet earth / $c International Instructional Films
Productions.
490 1# $a Discovery series
830 #0 $a Discovery series (International Instructional Films
Productions)
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