LIS 605

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LIS 605

• Review of second session
• Spring 2008

donna Bair-Mundy
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Areas of description

• Title statement of responsibility
• Edition
• Material format (not for books)
• Publication, distribution, etc.
• Physical description
• Series
• Note
• Standard number and terms of availability

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Areas in MARC record

• 020 ISBN
• 245 Title statement of responsibility
• 250 Edition statement
• 260 Publication, distribution, etc.
• Physical description
• 4XX Series
• 500 Note

Area 8 Area 1 Area 2 Area 4 Area 5 Area 6 Area 7
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Title proper
1.0B1 Transcribe exactly as to wording, order,
and spelling, but not necessarily as to
punctuation and capitalization. Include
accents and diacritical marks
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Title proper
1.0B1
The Story of Fluffy
245 a The story of Fluffy
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Title proper
1.0B1
Très bien
245 a Très bien
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Other title information
245 subfield b

• Use for subtitle
• Can be abridged (must have at least first 5
  words)
• Transcribe following title proper even if
  material appears above title proper on title page

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Other title information
Space colon space precedes "other title
information"
245 a Title b other title information
/ c statement of responsibility.
Subfield b
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Statements of responsibility (1)
245 subfield c

• Transcribe in form appears on title page
• Don't add "by" if not on title page
• Omit titles (Dr., Admiral) except British titles
  of honor

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Statements of responsibility (2)

• Add clarifying statement if needed
• compiled by
• Rule of 3 if more than 3 persons with same
  function, name only first
• Julian W. Smith et al.

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Statement of responsibility
Space slash space precedes first statement of
responsibility
245 1 0 a Title b other title information
/ c statement of responsibility.
Subfield c.
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245 Field for Harry
Diagonal slash precedes first statement of
responsibility
245 1 0 a Harry Potter and the prisoner of
Azkaban / c by J.K. Rowling illustrations
by Mary Grandpré.
Semicolon precedes subsequent statement of
responsibility
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Areas of description

• Title statement of responsibility
• Edition
• Material format (not for books)
• Publication, distribution, etc.
• Physical description
• Series
• Note
• Standard number and terms of availability

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Edition statement
MARC field 250

• Use wording on item
• Must use abbreviations
• Include statement of responsibility
  (unabbreviated) if for that edition only

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Edition statement
250 a Edition statement / b statement of
responsibility.
Statement of responsibility preceded by space
slash space
250 field
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Edition statement
250 a 27th ed. / b revised by Gramm Uhr
Fichser.
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Areas of description

• Title statement of responsibility
• Edition
• Material format (not for books)
• Publication, distribution, etc.
• Physical description
• Series
• Note
• Standard number and terms of availability

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Physical description

• Extent of item
• Record last numbered page of each separate
  numbering sequence
• Record pages or leaves with illustrative matter
  as pages or leaves of plates if they are not part
  of preliminary or main pagination sequence

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Physical description

• Illustrative matter
• Note illustrations as ill. if not simply
  decorative.
• Note if color (two or more colorsnot black and
  white on colored background).
• If all illustrations use all ill. (if almost all
  then use chiefly ill.)
• Optionally, if illustrations are all of one or
  more types can use maps, ports., computer drawings

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Physical description

• Dimensions
• Record height in cm. (Round up.)
• Add width if book wider than tall or width less
  than half of height
• Note accompanying material (e.g. 1 answer book)

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Physical description
Illustrative matter preceded by space-colon-space
300 a xvi, 478 p. b ill. c 19 cm.
e 1 answer book.
Dimensions preceded by space-semicolon-space
300 field
Accomp. material preceded by space-plus-space