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Bibliographic Formats and Standards

Fourth Edition


Abstract

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

Revision history

Date Scope
2011 October

Information from Technical Bulletin 260: OCLC-MARC Format Update 2011. In addition to changes from the technical bulletin, this revision also includes miscellaneous changes throughout.

2010 July

Information from Technical Bulletin 258: OCLC-MARC Format Update 2010 including RDA Changes.

2010 February

Chapter 5: Quality Assurance revised to reflect that the changes of the Expert Community Experiment have been made permanent.

2009 December

Information from Technical Bulletin 257: OCLC-MARC Format Update 2009.

2008 September Bibliographic Formats and Standards, 4th edition. For more information, see Major Differences Between Third and Fourth Editions



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