Belmont High School Cataloguing Style Guide (Updated 9/4/08)
Responsibility statements:
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Authors: Surname in capitals, followed by a comma, followed by a space, First name (S) Capital letter first
letter and the rest lower case. e.g. SMITH, John L
Where an author has only two initials after the surname place a full stop after each initial and a space between
the two initials. e.g. SMITH, J. L.
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Editors, illustrators and compilers: After author entry as above add (ED.) (ILLUS.) or (COMP.)
e.g. SMITH, J. (ED.)
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Personal titles: e.g. SMITH, P. (DR.)
Subjects:
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Names - After a comma all capitals and after a dash capitalize first letter of next word
e.g. ABBOTT, LANA – Biography
ART, ABORIGINAL
ABBREVIATIONS – Dictionaries
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Town or region - add state (in Australia)
e.g. ABORIGINAL PEOPLES – Western District (Vic.)
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History heading
e.g. GREAT BRITAIN – History – 20th century
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Title of royalty or nobility
e.g. HIROHITO, Emperor of Japan
Belmont High Subject Headings – Special Review areas – Term 2, 2008:
Films/ Motion Pictures –continue to use MOTION PICTURES and the appropriate sub
headings as have
been used to date and add new ones as needed after MOTION PICTURES.
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For fiction books that have been made into a film or television series use:
MOTION PICTURES – Fiction
TELEVISION – Fiction
Biography:
always add BIOGRAPHY as a subject heading as well as any other appropriate biography
subject heading
e.g. ABORIGINAL PEOPLES - Biography
SPORTSMEN AND SPORTSWOMEN – Biography
If the biography is about an Australian add BIOGRAPHY, AUSTRALIAN
If a biography is written by and Australian add AUTHORS, AUSTRALIAN
use AUTOBIOGRAPHIES for collections of accounts of people’s lives written by themselves.
Also add a BIOGRAPHY heading. Classify in 920.
Art and Sport biographies: Catalogue in the appropriate number in the 700’s with .092 added
Music biographies also to be catalogued in the appropriate 700 numbers but add country code not
092
e.g. John Farnham = 781.660994 FAR NOT 781.660994092 FAR or 781.66092 FAR
Call number letters should reflect the subject of the biography e.g. Paul Keating, Prime Minister =
923.2 KEA
Racial, ethnic and national groups:
Put in 920.0092 if a collection of general biographies of aboriginal peoples. If specific. i.e Aboriginal
politicians put in 923.2 if a single biography or a collection of aboriginal politicians.
DO NOT ADD KEYWORDS PLEASE.
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Videos:
o Use Dewey classification for all subjects areas and first three letters of the title (or as
decided by the cataloguer)
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The faculty no. e.g. Art = 1 is added at the bottom of the spine above the rating. This number does not
appear on the catalogue record.
Codes re: 1 Art
2 Commerce
3 English
4 Geography
5 History
6 Home Economics
7 Language
8 Maths
9 Music
10 Physical Education 11 Science
13 Careers
14 VCAL
15 ESL
16 Wood
17 Drama
18 Professional Development 19 Health
20 Media
Always include faculty (domain) subject heading e.g. LIBRARY VIDEOS or LIBRARY DVD
Include Rating e.g. E, G, PG, M
Include time and whether the program is B&W or Col.
Check films on the internet using http://www.imdb.com/ for consistency purposes.
Add notes as applicable to films.
Films to be classified 791.4372 and suffix is the first 3 letters of title (ignore The and A)
and add the faculty code on the bottom of the spine above the printed rating graphic.
All films must include a Director subject entry e.g. GARLAND, FRANK (DIRECTOR)
Films: add subject headings regarding genre: e.g. COMEDY FILMS; MUSICAL FILMS; DRAMA
FILMS; WAR FILMS; DOCUMENTARY FILMS
DO NOT ADD KEYWORDS PLEASE.
FICTION CATALOGUING
Use fiction subject list in the front of the SCIS subject headings book and add new headings as
required; use existing non-fiction headings and add – Fiction as necessary to allow continuity of
cataloguing. Put first four letters of the authors surname as call number.
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If a book has more than one title to add extra titles in Alice after the main entry title they must be added as
SUBJECTS in lower case with normal capitalization. After the title add (Title).
FICTION SUBJECT HEADINGS:
o Ensure that the book is a fiction
o Subject headings will reflect headings used for non-fiction and will have – Fiction added to them.
o CLASSICS – use for stories that are classics e.g. Old Yeller, Alice in wonderland, War of the worlds etc.
o CLASSICAL LITERATURE – use this heading for Bronte, Dickens, Hardy etc.
o Add – AUSTRALIAN FICTION to all books written by Australian authors
o AUTHORS, AUSTRALIAN - Add to all books written Australian authors All call numbers will now have the
first four letters of the authors surname (This reflects local public library practice)
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If the book has been made into a film or a television series add:
o MOTION PICTURES – Fiction
o TELEVISION PROGRAMMES - Fiction
Headings we are not using:
o Adult fiction
o Detective stories use DETECTIVES - Fiction or CRIME STORIES
o Dog stories use DOGS – Fiction
o Easy read use QUICK READ – Fiction (For thin, easy to read books)
o GRAPHIC TEXTS use only for Non-Fiction (use GRAPHIC NOVELS for Fiction)
o Growing up – Fiction use ADOLESCENTS - Fiction; FRIENDSHIP - Fiction; FAMILY
RELATIONS - Fiction; or some other appropriate heading to the storyline.
o Love stories – use ROMANCES – Fiction and please use as a last resort.
o Picture books – use PICTURE STORY BOOKS
o Suspense stories use MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE STORIES.
DO NOT ADD KEYWORDS PLEASE.
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