260 Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint) (NR)
Input Standards
Required if applicable/Required if applicable CNR: Mandatory/Mandatory
1st Indicator Undefined
Undefined
2nd Indicator Undefined
Undefined
Subfields (R=Repeatable NR=Nonrepeatable)
Input Standards
‡a
Place of publication, distribution, etc. (R)
Required if applicable/Optional CNR: Mandatory/Required if applicable except for "in" analytics
‡b
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. (R)
Required if applicable/Required if applicable CNR: Mandatory/Required if applicable except for "in" analytics
‡c
Date of publication, distribution, etc. (R)
Required if applicable/Required if applicable BKS: Mandatory/Required if applicable except for "in" analytics
‡d
Plate or publisher number (R)
SCO: Optional. Pre-AACR2 only/Optional. Pre-AACR2 only
‡e
Place of manufacture (R)
Required if applicable/Optional
‡f
Manufacturer (R)
Required if applicable/Optional
‡g
Date of manufacture (R)
Optional/Optional
Definition
Information relating to the publication, printing, distribution, issue, release or production of a work.
For unpublished items or materials that are collectively controlled, field 260 may not be included in a record or may contain only subfield ‡c (Date of publication, distribution, etc.) .
Guidelines
Use the following guidelines for entering data in field 260:
Enter multiple place names or publisher names in separate subfields.
Enter multiple occurrences of other components, such as dates, in separate subfields only if a different type of component intervenes.
Enter components of "real" imprints (carried in brackets and identified by the phrase i.e.) in separate subfields only if a different type of component intervenes.
Enter the qualification of a place in the same subfield as the place name.
Enter the statement of the function of a publisher in the same subfield as the publisher's name.
If you are cataloging locally produced audiovisual items and off-air videorecordings that are not released, published, or similarly issued in multiple copies as an edition, you may enter only a date in field 260. Or, if you enter the date elsewhere in the record, you do not have to enter any information in field 260. See section 3.7, "
Locally Made Videorecordings," for more information.
If you are inputting audiovisual media cataloging created prior to AACR1 revised chapter 12 cataloging rules (which follow ISBD specifications), use
field 261 for production and release information.
If you are cataloging two-dimensional nonprojected graphic materials, use field 260 for publication data for both pre-AACR2 and AACR2 records.
Archival material
Use field 260 for the date or inclusive dates for a single manuscript or a collection, unless the date is part of the title.
REC
If you are inputting pre-AACR2 cataloging, use
field 262 for imprint information.
COM
Use subfields ‡ a, ‡ b and ‡ c for producer and distributor data. Use subfields ‡ e, ‡ f and ‡ g for generator data.
The producer is the person or corporate body with the financial and/or administrative responsibility for the physical processes whereby the file is brought into existence. The producer may also be responsible for the collection of data and their conversion into machine-readable form.
A distributor is a person or organization designated by the author or producer to reproduce copies of the file.
A generator is a person or corporate body with responsibility for the physical process by which a file is converted into machine-readable form (e.g., keypunching), but whose responsibility does not extend beyond data conversion.
1st Indicator
Undefined. The 1st indicator position is undefined and contains a blank ( ).
Undefined
2nd Indicator
Undefined. The 2nd indicator position is undefined and contains a blank ( ).
Undefined
Subfields
‡a Place of publication, distribution, etc.
The place of publication and any additions to the name of a place, including an address, bracketed correction to erroneous information, or bracket clarification of a fictitious place.
260
Stony Brook, N.Y.
260
Toronto
260
New York
260
[Hamburg?]
260
Rio [de Janeiro]
260
Belfast [i.e. Dublin]
260
London [Ont.]
260
London (35 Notting Hill Gate, London, W.11)
If two places are recorded, enter each place name in a separate subfield ‡a.
260
Philadelphia : ‡b Independent Productions ; ‡a London
260
London ; ‡a New York
260
München ; ‡a Hannover
260
New York : ‡b Wiley ; ‡a Oxford
260
Paris : ‡b Gauthier-Villars ; ‡a Chicago
If the probable place of publication cannot be determined, use the abbreviation [S.l.]
260
[S.l.]
‡b Name of publisher, distributor, etc.
The name of the publisher or distributor and any qualifying terms, such as an indication of function (other than solely publishing) performed by the person or body.
260
[Chicago, Ill.] : ‡b Produced by National Opinion Research Center as part of the National Data Program for the Social Sciences
260
[London] : ‡b Warner
260
New York : ‡b RCA Victor
260
New York : ‡b Audio-Visual Division, Popular Science Pub. Co.
260
London (25 Notting-Hill Gate, London, W. 11) : ‡b Sussex Tapes
260
New York : ‡b Released by Beaux Arts
260
Montréal : ‡b National Film Board of Canada [production company]
260
Manchester : ‡b University of Manchester, Dept. of Medical Biochemistry [distributor]
260
New York ; ‡a London : ‡b McGraw-Hill
260
London : ‡b On Target Publications
260
[London] : ‡b Royal Geographical Society
260
Edinburgh : ‡b Palingenesis Press
260
New York : ‡b Distributed by New York Graphic Society
If two publishers, distributors, etc., are named, enter each name in a separate subfield ‡b.
260
New York : ‡b American Broadcasting Co. [production company] : ‡b Released by Xerox Films
260
Montréal : ‡b National Film Board of Canada [production company] ; ‡a London : ‡b Guild Sound and Vision [distributor]
260
San Francisco : ‡b Davidson Films [production company] ; ‡a Morristown, N.J. : ‡b Silver Burdett [publisher]
260
London : ‡b Iron and Steel Board : ‡b British Iron and Steel Federation
260
New York : ‡b Wiley ; ‡a Oxford : ‡b Pergamon [distributor]
260
London : ‡b Shepherd-Walwyn ; ‡a New York : ‡b Distributed by International Publications Service
If the probable publisher, distributor, etc., is unknown, use the abbreviation [s.n.].
260
London : ‡b [s.n.]
260
[S.l. : ‡b s.n.]
CNR
Enter only the first publisher or distributor in field 260. Enter the names of later publishers in note form in the appropriate
5xx Fields. Enter any necessary added entries in
field 700,
field 710 or
field 711.
‡c Date of publication, distribution, etc.
The date of publication.
If the date of manufacture is substituted for the date of publication, use subfield ‡c. If there is a date of publication and a date of manufacture, use subfield ‡g for the date of manufacture.
The date represents the date of publication of the edition specified in
field 250, not the date of a subsequent printing. A difference in the date of publication of an edition justifies a new record. If the date is unknown or estimated (e.g., [197-?.] vs. [1965?]), use judgment.
Summary of Field 260 ‡c, Date of Publication
Book
Publication Date
Copyright Date
Printing Date
Field 260 ‡c
DtSt / Date1
Publication date only
2001
2001
s / 2001
Copyright date only
c2000
c2000
s / 2000
Printing date only
2001 printing
[2001]
s / 2001
Printing date only [not 1st impression]
15th impression, 2001
[2001]
s / 2001
Publication date = copyright date
2001
c2001
2001
s / 2001
Publication date > copyright date
2001
c2000
2001
s / 2001
Publication date < copyright date
2000
c2001
2000
s / 2000
Publication date < 1st impression date
2000
1st printing, 2001
2000 [i.e., 2001]
s / 2001
Publication date < other impression date (not 1st)
2000
15th impression, 2001
2000
s / 2000
Copyright date = year of manufacture
c2000
2000 printing
c2000
s / 2000
Copyright date does not = year of manufacture
c2000
2001 printing
c2000
s / 2000
Explicit copyright renewal dates ignored for works copyrighted before 1978
c1925, copyright renewed 1953
c1925
s / 1925
Multiple copyright dates with first date after 1977
c1978,... c2001
c2001
s / 2001
Received in [year]; publication date in year following
2002 [book received in 2001]
2002
s / 2002
Received in [year]; copyright date in year following
c2002 [book received in 2001]
c2002
s / 2002
Table adapted from an original reprinted by permission of The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
[Chicago, Ill.] : ‡b Produced by National Opinion Research Center as part of the National Data Program for the Social Sciences ; ‡a Storrs [Conn.] : ‡b Data distributed by Roper Public Opinion Research Center, University of Connecticut, ‡c 1980.
260
Santa Ana, Calif. : ‡b Doubleday Multimedia, ‡c 1973.
260
New York : ‡b American Broadcasting Co. [production company] : ‡b Released by Xerox Films, ‡c 1973.
260
London : ‡b Methuen, ‡c 1976-
260
London : ‡b Faber Music, ‡c 1697 [i.e. 1967]
If you are cataloging a single manuscript, map manuscript, music manuscript, or thesis according to manuscript rules, enter only one date.
260
‡c 1981.
260
‡c 1813 Dec. 17.
245
1
0
Letter, 1854 Dec. 22, Washington, D.C. [to] Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Ill.
[No 260 field is used.]
If the publication date differs from the date of distribution, add the date of distribution if it is considered to be significant by the cataloguing agency.
260
London : ‡b Macmillan, ‡c 1971 [distributed 1973]
260
London : ‡b BBC-TV, ‡c 1972 ; ‡a New York : ‡b Released by Time-Life Films, ‡c 1975.
Enter multiple dates in the same subfield ‡c unless a different type of component intervenes.
If you are cataloging unpublished items, enter only a date in field 260.
260
‡c [198-]
REC guidelines for ‡c
If the date of recording differs from the date of publication, enter the recording in coded form in
field 033 and in textual form in
field 518.
033
0
0
1961----
260
[New York] : ‡b Music Guild, ‡c 1971.
518
Recorded in 1961.
CNR guidelines for ‡c
Enter the date in field 260, even if it coincides with the date given in a "formatted" 362 field.
260
Mount Vernon, NY : ‡b Consumers Union of United States, ‡c 1942-
362
Vol. 7, no. 6 (June 1942)-
If no subfield ‡c is present (because the cataloging is not based on the first issue), do not use any final punctuation at the end of the data in subfield ‡b.
260
Des Moines, IA : ‡b Special Interest Publications
500
Description based on: Fall 1981; title from cover.
Archival material guidelines for ‡c
Enter the date as a year or years. If you are cataloging a single manuscript according to AACR2, you may include the month and day (in that order) following the year.
245
1
0
Life of Romney.
260
‡c 1807.
245
1
0
Exil / ‡c St.-J. Perse.
260
‡c 1941
245
1
0
Alice's adventures under ground : ‡b a Christmas gift to a dear child in memory of a summer day / ‡c [Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson)].
260
‡c 1864.
245
1
0
Sonnet, To Genevra / ‡c [Lord Byron].
260
‡c 1813 Dec. 17.
245
0
0
Letter, 1854 Dec. 22, Washington, D.C. [to] Abraham Lincoln Springfield, Ill.
[No 260 field is used.]
‡d Plate or publisher number
Prior to AACR2, practice was to enter the plate number or publisher number in the imprint. AACR2 prescribes that you enter the plate or publisher number as a note (
field 028 and/or
field 500). Pre-AACR2 records may have plate or publisher numbers in field 260. Do not use subfield ‡d for plate or publisher numbers for current cataloging.
Enter place of manufacture only if necessary to identify the item. Ordinarily, do not enter the information to represent different printings of the same edition.
260
[S.l. : ‡b s.n.], ‡c 1991 ‡e (London)
‡f Manufacturer
Enter manufacturer only if necessary to identify the item. Ordinarily, do not enter the information to represent different printings of the same edition.
260
Paris : ‡b [s.n., ‡c ca. 1898] ‡e (Paris : ‡f LeBrun)
‡g Date of manufacture
Enter date of manufacture only if necessary to identify the item. Ordinarily, do not enter the information to represent different printings of the same edition.
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