2.7B1. Nature, scope, or artistic form
General Application:
For books, generally restrict the making of the note about the nature, scope, or artistic form of the item to the situations covered below. For books that are belles lettres, record in a note the term for the literary form only when the title is misleading. Do not consider titles of literary works misleading simply because they are fanciful.
Special Application:
Record in a note the literary form of the book being cataloged if it contains one or more literary works by one author and it meets one of the following conditions:
1. the item is in one or more of the following languages: Amharic, Armenian, Arabic, Georgian, Persian, Ottoman Turkish, or Turkish;
2. the item is in a non-Slavic language of Central Asia written in the Cyrillic alphabet;
3. the item is in a language indigenous to one or ,ore of the following countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibet, or Vietnam;
4. the item is in a language indigenous to Africa and in the roman script.
Make the note whether or note the form is identified in the uniform title or in the body of the entry.
Literary Form Note:
When giving the literary form notes, base it one the following literary forms: drama; fiction; poetry; literature (used for an item containing works in more than one form). The note should be worded according to the cataloger’s approximation of the publication; the words chosen do not necessarily have to use one of the terms listed above (e.g., "Plays" instead of "Drama").
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