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Bibliographic Formats and Standards

Third Edition


Abstract

Bibliographic Formats and Standards is a guide to the bibliographic information on records in WorldCat. It provides tagging conventions, input standards and guidelines for entering information.

Revision ongoing

The revision of Bibliographic Formats and Standards is underway.

Due to the complexity and large scale of this project, chapters are being made available in HTML and PDF as they are revised.

To see what parts have been revised, see the Revision history below.

When the revision is complete, a printed edition will be published.

Revision history

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2008 March 7xx fields now revised. Changes available in:
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2007 August 5xx fields now revised. Changes available in:
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2007 July 8xx fields now revised. Changes available in:
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2007 June TB 254 changes have been incoporated.
2007 June 6xx fields now revised. Changes available in:
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2007 April 4xx fields now revised. Fields 400, 410, and 411 deleted. Changes available in:
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2007 March 9xx fields now revised. Changes available in:
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3xx fields now revised. Changes available in:
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2xx fields now revised. Changes available in:
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2007 February Chapter 2, Online Cataloging, under Types of Cataloging: expanded discussion of original cataloging in MARC and Dublin Core. Changes available in:
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2006 December Bibliographic Formats and Standards now contains the relevant information from all Technical Bulletins. The first five chapters have been revised: The other major changes are listed below:

Information on new editing guidelines for integrating resources for cooperative cataloging (Enhance, CONSER, etc.) from Technical Bulletin 252: OCLC-MARC Format Update 2006.
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Information on new coding guidelines for integrating resources from Technical Bulletin 252: OCLC-MARC Format Update 2006.
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Information on database enrichment from Technical Bulletin 246: Database Enrichment.
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Information on parallel records from Technical Bulletin 250: Parallel Records.
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The table (Summary of 260 c Date of Publication) that had been in 4.2, "Field by Field Guidelines for New Records" is now in field 260, subfield c.

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2003 November Changes to field 936 documented in Technical Bulletin 250: Parallel Records.
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2003 May Changes documented in Technical Bulletin 249: OCLC-MARC Format Update 2003.
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2002 December

Changes documented in Technical Bulletin 247: OCLC-MARC Format Update 2002.
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2002 August

Bibliographic Formats and Standards, 3rd edition, HTML.
2002 August Changes to field 245 documented in Bits & Pieces August 2002. Changes available in:
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Print: Not changed. Annotate as needed.
2002 June Bibliographic Formats and Standards, 3rd edition, print and PDF.



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