LIS 605

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LIS 605

• Review of first session of Fall 2008

donna Bair-Mundy
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Resources for descriptive cataloging in MARC
format
Content AACR2 gives the rules for description
and access points

• Fields MARC 21 gives information regarding the
  fields and subfields in which the data is encoded

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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 cataloging card
Area 1 Title statement of responsibility
The mystery of Edwin Drood / by Charles
Dickens with twelve illustrations by Luke
Fildes and two by Charles Collins and an
introduction by S.C. Roberts. -- Oxford New
York Oxford University Press, 1956. xi, 278
p. ill. 19 cm. -- (The Oxford illustrated
Dickens) Prior to 1966 the series had the title
The illustrated Dickens. ISBN 0-19-254516-7
Area 8 Standard number
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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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MARC fields for description
245 1 0 a Harry Potter and the prisoner of
Azkaban / c by J.K. Rowling illustrations by
Mary Grandpré. 250 B B a 1st American
ed. 260 B B a New York b Arthur A. Levine
Books, c 1999. 300 B B a ix, 435 p. b ill.
c 24 cm. 500 B B a Sequel to Harry Potter
and the Chamber of Secrets.
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MARC field coding
245 1 0 a Harry Potter and the prisoner of
Azkaban / c by J.K. Rowling illustrations by
Mary Grandpré.
245 Tag indicating field
1 0 Indicators
a Beginning of subfield
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Punctuation for title and statement of
responsibility
Space colon space precedes "other title
information"
245 1 0 a Title b other title information
/ c statement of responsibility.
Space slash space precedes first statement of
responsibility
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AACR2 Rules for punctuation
1.0C. Punctuation
Extra spacing
No extra spacing


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