Introduction
Description Conventions contains a list of codes assigned to sources of conventions (that
is, rules, manuals, guidelines, policies, etc.) that are used in the description of bibliographic
items. The codes in this list are used to identify the description conventions applied
in a MARC record as a whole, or to specific MARC elements (e.g., particular fields). The
codes assigned cover national and specialized description conventions, such as AACR2-based
manuals for special forms of materials.
Arrangement of the List
Entries in the following list are arranged in alphabetical order by the code and consist of
the code followed by the bibliographic citation for the work.
Code Structure
The code assigned to the work is derived from its title and consists of a maximum of eight
lowercase
characters.
The code may be followed by the edition or date of publication of the source work. The
code
is
separated from the edition or date by a slash (/). Omission of the year or edition will imply that
the
assigning institution used the most recent edition of the source work available. For example:
- appm/1983
- Hensen, Steven L. Archives, personal papers, and manuscripts.
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Bibliographic & Authority
records:
040 $e (Cataloging Source / Description
conventions)
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Code Lists
- aacr
- Anglo-American cataloguing
rules (Chicago: American
Library Association)
- amim
- Archival moving
image materials (Washington: Library of Congress)
- amremm
- Pass, Gregory A.
Descriptive cataloging of ancient, medieval, renaissance, and
early-modern manuscripts (Chicago: Association of College
& Research Libraries)
- appm
- Hensen, Steven L.
Archives, personal papers, and
manuscripts (Washington: Library of Congress)
- bdrb
- Descriptive cataloging of
rare books (Washington:
Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service)
- bps
- McCrum, Blanche Prichard.
Bibliographical procedures
and style (Washington: Library of Congress, General Reference
and Bibliography Division)
- crlp
- Hallam, Adele. Cataloging
rules for the
description
of looseleaf publications: with special emphasis on legal
materials
(Washington: Library of Congress)
- dcrb
- Descriptive cataloging of
rare books
(Washington,
DC: Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of
Congress)
- dmbsb
- Dokumentation av
materialets behandling i SB 1700-1829 (Stockholm: Kungl. Biblioteket)
- estc
- Eighteenth century short title
catalogue, the cataloguing rules (London: The British Library)
- fobidrtb
- Federatie van
Organisaties op het Gebied van het Bibliotheek-Informatie-en Dokumentatiewezen (FOBID)
Regels voor de titelbeschrijving (Den Haag: Nederlands Bibliotheek en Lektuur
Centrum)
- gihc
- Betz, Elisabeth W. Graphic
materials
(Washington: Library of Congress)
- hmstcn
- Handleiding voor de
medewerkers aan de STCN (Short title catalog of the Netherlands] ('s Gravenhage: Koninklijke
Bibliotheek)
- isadg
- ISAD(G) General
international standard archival description (Ottawa: International
Council on Archives)
[use only
after Dec. 29, 2003]
- krsb
- Katalogiseringsregler for
svenska bibliotek (Lund: Bibliotekstjanst)
- mmlcc
- Manual of map library
classification and cataloguing (London: Ministry of Defence)
- ncafnor
- Normes de catalogage
publiées par l'Association
française de normalisation (Paris: AFNOR)
- ncr
- Nihon mokuroku kisoku =
[Nippon cataloging rules] (Tokyo: Nihon Toshokan Kyôkai)
- ncs
- Norme per il
catalogo degli stampati (Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca
apostolica vaticana)
- ohcm
- Matters, Marion E. Oral
history cataloging manual
(Chicago: Society of American Archivists)
- ppiak
- Verona, Eva. Pravilnik
i priručnik za izradbu
abecednih kataloga (Zagreb: Hrvatsko bibliotekarsko
drustvo)
- psbo
- Pravila
sostavleníìa
bibliograficheskogo opisaníìa
(Moskva: "Kniga")
- rad
- Rules for archival
description (Ottawa:
Bureau of
Canadian Archivists)
- rak
- Regeln für die
alphabetische
Katalogisierung
(Wiesbaden: Reichert)
- rakwb
- Regeln für die
alphabetische
Katalogisierung an
wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken. (Berlin: Deutsches
Bibliotheksinstitut)
- -rcaa2
- Règles de
catalogage
anglo-américaines. 2e
édition. (Montréal: ASTED)
[Prior
to the
implementation of a
technique for identifying editions and translations of
description convention
sources, this code was used for the French edition of
AACR2]
- rdc
- Reglas de
catalogación (Madrid: Dirección General del Libro, Archivos y
Bibliotecas)
- -yuppiak
- USE
ppiak
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