Procedures for commercially produced media for Archives and Special Collections

Procedures for commercially produced media for Archives and Special Collections

Department: Technical Services

Commercially produced media for Archives/Special Collections

Cataloging and processing

Policy and Procedures

Draft 9/09

Commercially produced media featuring Valparaiso University faculty, students and alumni should have copy 1 cataloged and processed for Archives location if possible. Use processing guidelines as for the general media collection with care given not to cover any text. Archives item record status should be “library use only”.

Additional copies of the piece should be processed to circulate in the general media collection.

In addition:

Audio CD:

Barcode label may go on the CD jewel case cover as usual. Do not cover any text on inserts or jewel case.

phv/9/4/09