Books Where do you start Where on a book do you usually find publication andor copyright date information Title page andor tp verso If its not there Use the part of the item giving the most complete information cover caption title page substitute colophon etc ID: 810681
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Slide1
Dates in Bibliographic Records
Books
Slide2Where do you start?
Where on a book do you usually find publication and/or copyright date information?
Title page and/or
t.p
. verso
Slide3If it’s not there…
Use the part of the item giving the most complete information (cover, caption, title page substitute, colophon, etc.)
Slide4What are you looking for?
What is the first date to look for when matching?
Publication date
Slide5What else?
If there is no publication date, what do you look for next?
Copyright date
Slide6How can you tell?
How do you know the difference between a copyright date and a publication date?
Copyright symbol (©) or the word
copyright
in front of the date
Slide7Copyright dates
Your book has a copyright date of 2010 for the text and a copyright date of 2012 for the cover illustration. Which do you use for matching?
Copyright date of the text
Slide8Unless…
There is evidence this is a new edition
Illustration copyright date may be used as an
implied publication date and will appear in the bibliographic record in brackets: [
2012]
Slide9Multiple copyright dates
Your book has no publication date, but has: ©2005, 2007, 2009. Which copyright date do you use?
Copyright date 2009
Slide10Unless…copyright renewal dates
Your book has: ©1945, ©renewed 1992. Which date do you use?
©1945. For works copyrighted before 1978, ignore the copyright renewal date and use the original date
Your book has: ©1985, ©renewed 1992. Which date do you use?
©1992. For works copyrighted after 1977, use the copyright renewal date
Slide11Future dates
You’ve received a newly-published book by a best-selling author. The t. p. verso has ©2015. Is it okay to have a future date in a bibliographic record?
Yes
Slide12Printing dates
Your book has a publication date of 2012 and a printing date of 2013. Which date do you use for matching?
Publication date. Printing dates are usually ignored
Slide13Unless…
Your book has no publication or copyright date, but has a first printing date of 2013
2013 may be used as an implied publication date, and will appear in the bibliographic record in brackets: [2013]
Slide14Or…
A printing statement implies a new publication, even if there is no publication date. Often seen with Scholastic:
First Scholastic printing, March
2005
(usually on the
t.p
. verso)
First printing date may be used as an implied publication date and will appear in the bibliographic record in brackets: [2005]
Slide15What if there’s no date?
Recorded differently in the record depending on cataloging rules used
Pre-AACR:
[
n.d.
]
RDA:
[Date of publication not identified]
AACR: Cataloger supplies a date, entered in brackets
Slide16Cataloger-supplied dates (AACR)
Dates will be in brackets, and may be followed by a question mark
[2012]
Implied publication date based on available information,
i.e
, printing date
[2012?]
Estimated date—cataloger made their best guess
[199-]
Publication in the 1990s, not sure what year
[19--?]
Estimated publication sometime in the 1900s
Slide17MARC coding for dates -- AACR
MARC tag 260, subfield c
If publication date and copyright date are the same, record only the publication date
260 $
aNew
York :$
bOxford
University Press,$c2012.
If publication date and copyright date are different, will often see both
260 $
aNew
York :$
bOxford
University Press,$c2012, c2010.
Copyright date is preceded by lower case c
Implied or estimated dates are in brackets
260 $
aZion
, IL :$
bZion
Historical
Society,$c
[2005?]
Slide18MARC coding for dates -- RDA
MARC tag 264, subfield c
Publication and copyright dates are recorded in separate fields
264 1 $
aChicago
:$
bLion
Publishers,$c2012.
264 4 $c©2010
Copyright date is preceded by copyright symbol or the word copyright (transcribe from item)
No ending punctuation
Publication date is a core element in RDA. If no publication date is present, but there is a copyright date, the copyright date is recorded in brackets as an implied publication date
264 1 $
aChicago
:$
bLion
Publishers,$
c
[2012]
264 4 $
c©2012
Slide19MARC coding for dates – Fixed fields
Coded based on the dates in 260 or 264 subfield c
Type of Date (Polaris) /
DtSt
(OCLC)
Code that categorizes type of date, i.e.,
s
for single date, or
t
for publication and copyright date
Date 1 and Date 2 (Polaris) / Dates (OCLC)
Enter publication date in first date box
Enter copyright date in second date box
Check these when editing records – dates in the fixed field affect searching!
Make sure the fixed field and the 260 or 264 match
Slide20Changing dates in records
Your new book has a publication date of 2014. There is a CIP record in OCLC with Encoding Level 8 that matches your book except that the publication date is 2013. Is it okay to change the date in the record to match your book?
Yes, you may upgrade a CIP record to match the item in hand. (Don’t forget the fixed field!)
Slide21Changing dates in records
Your new book has a publication
date of 2014. There is a
full-level record
in OCLC with Encoding Level
I that matches your book except that the
publication
date is 2013
. Is it okay to change the date in the record to match your book
?
No, no, a thousand times, no!
Slide22Unless…
It can be determined that there truly is an error in the bibliographic record
Slide23Questions?
Dates can be tricky – call us if you need help!