Chronology Tracings

Scope

Chronology tracings are made for all pamphlets and broadsides published in or about the United States, Great Britain, Continental Europe, and Latin America. Pamphlets are generally works of 100 pages or less, bound or unbound; however the limitation of 100 pages is not rigid. Chronology tracings are made for pamphlets or broadsides that are political, religious, biographical, economic or historical in nature. The intent of the tracings is to provide access to material that deals with contemporary events or issues. Do not make chronology tracings for pamphlets and broadsides that are purely literary in content. The four types of chronology tracings are:

Format

Chronology tracings are local subject tracings and are entered in a 690 field with a second indicator of “4”. After the appropriate heading (e.g. Brit tracts) add a ‡y and the date of publication for the item. In general the tracing is created from information found in the 260 ‡c.

• Use the date of publication for the item in hand.
• For questionable dates use the date as it appears in the 260 ‡c field. Drop brackets, question marks, and text such as before, after, between, and ca. Older records using n.d. should be corrected as found to an estimated date.
• If the estimated date is a probable decade or century, use dashes (e.g. ‡y 173-). If the estimated date spans a decade, then enter using the date as it appears (e.g. ‡y 1723-1735).
• If the work is a photocopy, make a chronology tracing for the date of publication of the original.
• If the date of publication has been corrected use the corrected date.
• If the date of publication is a double year use the second year.

Examples