Large print

The rules on this page have been approved in concept by the SCRAP committee, but the exact wording is still being adjusted. Please use these rules. Please send any feedback to SCRAP.

Treatment of large print books follows the standard set by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped of the Library of Congress. Consider a resource to be large print if both of these conditions are met:

• The item is printed in characters in a 14 point or larger font
• The item is labeled "large print" or "larger print"

HarperLuxe and Harlequin are the primary publishers of "larger type" books.

Code as follows:

Form fixed field element=d
250 Large print [or Larger print]
300 pagination description is qualified with (large print) following AACR2 2.5B23
655 0 Large type books.

If there is no formal edition statement that would normally be transcribed (250 2nd ed.), then the "larger print" statement on the item should be added as an edition statement. (250 Larger print.) Otherwise, give as a quoted note along with source. (500 "Larger print"—Cover.)

Each library may decide for themselves whether the print size of a given book is big enough to warrant shelving it with their other large print books or with their other regular print books.

External links

Bibliographic Formats and Standards: Form fixed field element

Reading Materials in Large Print: A Resource Guide

SCRAP minutes, December 2007