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ISBN:                                          020 __ [blank field]

ISSN:                                          022 __ [blank field]

Personal author:             100            100 1_ [blank field]

Uniform title:                               240 __ [blank field]

Title:                                           245 __ [*required field*]

Publication info:                                   260 __ [blank field]

Physical description:                 300 __ [blank field]

Series: 440 __ [blank field]Series:                                                           490 __ [blank field]

Dissertation note:          502                      502 __ [blank field]

General note:               500                            500 __ [blank field]

Contents note:              505                          505 __ [blank field]

As is obvious, only the ‘Title’ field is of absolute necessity when creating a provisional record, and in some instances a title will be all the information available.

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Fixed Fields:               Date 1                              Lang

Descriptive Fields:      020 (ISBN)

022                                    022 (ISSN) – for serials

024                                    024 (ISMN) – for music

028                                    028 (publisher’s number) – for music

                                  100 (personal author)

                                  245 (title)

                                  250 (edition statement)

                                  260 (place of publication/date)

                                  300 (physical description)

4XX                                   490 (series)

                                  700 (editors or additional authors)

 

1.3  Non-print information

For videos, computer disks, microfilm, etc., add |h[GMD] immediately following the |a portion of title in the 245 field.Example: 245 00 Notorious Welsh women|h[videorecording]be sure to include a 500 note stating such format. Later, when the record is cataloged, the 336, 337, and 338 fields will make it clear to the cataloger what format the item is.


1.4  Status notes and control number

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