Cataloging Audiobooks
Written by Karen A. Plummer
Introduction
An audiobook contains the recording of a reading of a book, magazine, or other printed material, stored on one or more cassette tapes or compact discs; originally designed for the use of the visually impaired.
Classification
Audiobooks are not classified. Instead they are given accession numbers and filed in acquisition order in Audio-Visual Services. Accession numbers are created as follows:
Format ID: Audiobook
Accession#("A" and 3 digits): A###
Example:
099 Audiobook ‡a A091
099 Audiobook ‡a A091
Description
- Record the original author of the audiobook in the main entry tag (100, 110) and in the statement of responsibility (245c). Example:
- 100 1 Shakespeare, William, ‡d 1564-1616
245 10 Twelfth night ‡h [sound recording] / ‡c William Shakespeare
- 100 1 Shakespeare, William, ‡d 1564-1616
- If the item in hand represents an abridged version of the original, note this in the edition field (250). Example:
- 250 Abridged
- Record production date in the 260c. Example:
- 260 Washington, D.C. : ‡b Audio Books Contractors, Inc., ‡c p1999
- individual tape/disc titles in the 505 contents notes, with running times if available. Example:
- 505 0 1. The facts about negotiating -- 2. Three stages of negotiation -- 3. Tactics and countertactics of negotiating -- 4. More tactics of negotiating -- 5. More tactics of negotiating -- 6. Still more tactics -- 7. Power : understanding it and gaining it -- 8. Managing time and information -- 9. Personality types -- 10. Personality types II -- 11. Body language -- 12. Hidden meanings in conversation
- If there are multiple discs with full contents notes, record each disc as a separate 505 note. Example:
- 505 0 Disc 1. The store (7:19) -- Uncle Willy and Bailey (7:33) -- Powhitetrash girls (10:02) -- Reverend Taylor and Sister Monroe (10:19) -- Leaving Momma (9:16) -- Life in St. Louis (9:54) -- Mother dear (9:52) -- Mr. Freeman's secret (9:30)
- 505 0 Disc 2. Bailey learns the secret (11:48) -- Graduation and defeat (10:32) -- Valedictory victory (4:11) -- California high school (9:34) -- In a Mexican cantina (9:00) -- The driving lesson (11:06) -- Delores (9:07)
- 505 0 Disc 3. On my own (5:19) -- Junkyard girl (6:54) -- My first job (6:12) -- Breaking the color barrier (8:36) -- The seduction (6:21) -- A blessed event (11:24)
- Record producer, director, abridgment writer, etc. in the 508 tag. Example:
- 508 Directed by David Timson ; produced by Nicolas Soames
- 508 Producer, Eve Beglarian ; abridgment by Lynn Lauber
- Record reader, narrator, performer(s) in the 511 performance credits note. Example:
- 511 0 Read by Maya Angelou
- 511 0 Jonathan Keeble, Nick Fletcher, Daniel Philpott, Lucy Whybrow, Gerard Murphy, Christopher Godwin, David Timson, Jane Whittenshaw, Brian Parr, Stella Gonet, Benjamin Soames, Malcolm Sinclair, Adam Kotz, Peter Yapp
- 511 0 Where I'm calling from, read by Peter Riegert ; The stories of John Cheever, read by Maria Tucci ; Selected stories, read by John Updike ; Lolita, read by Jeremy Irons
- Always add a summary note (520). Example:
- 520 Tender yet tense novel of a Japanese-American fisherman who stands trial for murder in an atmosphere of racism and unrequited love.
- 520 Practical advice from ten successful entrepreneurs about starting your own business
- Provide adequate access through assignment of appropriate subject headings for fiction and nonfiction titles. Example:
- 100 1 Schulz, Mona Lisa <.li>
- 245 10 Awakening intuition ‡h [sound recording] : ‡b using your mind-body network for insight and healing / ‡c by Mona Lisa Schulz
- 650 0 Audiobooks
- 650 0 Intuition
- 650 0 Healing
- 650 0 Mind and body therapies
- 650 0 Women ‡x Health and hygiene
- 100 1 Guterson, David
- 245 10 Snow falling on cedars ‡h [sound recording] / ‡c David Guterson
- 650 0 Audiobooks
- 650 0 Japanese-Americans ‡z Washington (State) ‡v Fiction
- 650 0 Trials (Murder) ‡z Washington (State) ‡v Fiction
- 650 0 Journalists ‡z Washington (State) v‡Fiction
- 651 0 Washington (State) ‡v Fiction
- Always add the subject heading: Audiobooks in the 650 field. Example:
- 650 0 Audiobooks
- Add 700 author tracings for all persons listed in the 511 notes field, if different from the main author. Example:
- 100 1 Berendt, John, ‡d 1939-
- 245 10 Midnight in the garden of good and evil ‡h [sound recording] / ‡c John Berendt
- 511 0 Read by Anthony Heald
- 700 1 Heald, Anthony
- 100 1 Angelou, Maya
- 245 10 I know why the caged bird sings ‡h [sound recording] / ‡c Maya Angelou
- 511 0 Read by Maya Angelou
- [No 700 for Angelou]