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BIB |
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BKS: 008/34; 006/17 |
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Definition |
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| BKS, 006 |
A code that indicates whether or not an item contains biographical material, and if so, what the biographical characteristics are.
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The following types of material are biographical:
- Straightforward accounts of the life of a person (character, thought, and activities).
- Accounts of limited periods or aspects of the life of a person (e.g., Goethe as a government official). Collections of materials that serve as a source of or substitute for an account of a life. These include: (1) collections of correspondence unless they clearly relate to a particular subject or to an event not in the life of the writer (2) journals and diaries and (3) memoirs or reminiscences. Collective biographies.
- Literary criticism if more than half of the work is biographical.
- A work about a ruler and his or her reign if the ruler's life is given considerable attention.
- A work about a doctrine or movement if the work is largely biographical.
The following are not biographical:
- Documents relating to a person's life (birth, marriage and death certificates, commissions, diplomas, etc.). Obituaries, funeral orations, eulogies.
- Collections of portraits unless accompanied by substantial biographical description.
- Interviews and conversations.
- Bio-bibliographies.
- Genealogies.
- A vita within a work does not qualify the work as biographical. However, a biographical work may have a vita.
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Autobiography
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a |
| 100 |
1 |
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Kennedy, Robert F. ǂq (Robert Francis), ǂd 1925-1968 |
| 245 |
1 |
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Robert Kennedy : ǂb in his own words ... |
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Individual biography
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b |
| 100 |
1 |
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Dampenon, Philippe |
| 245 |
1 |
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Michel Sardou / ǂc par Philippe Dampenon |
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Collective biography. Items containing two or more individual biographies.
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c |
| 245 |
0 |
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Oxford dictionary of national biography : ǂb in association with the British Academy : from the earliest times to the year 2000 / ǂc edited by H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison |
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Contains biographical information
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| 245 |
0 |
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Correspondance inédite de Victor Jacquemont avec sa famille et ses amis, 1824-1832 : ǂb précédée: d'une notice biographique / ǂc par V. Jacquemont ... |
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No attempt to code |
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Indexing |
For indexing and searching information, see Searching WorldCat Indexes, Field 008. |
MARC 21 |
For more information, including content designator history, see MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data, 008/34 (Books). |
