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Consolidated Edition

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CONTENTS

Introduction ................................................................................................. vii

A General Chapter ...................................................................... 1

A.1 Scope, purpose and use .................................................... 1 A.2 Treatment of resources ...................................................... 3 A.3 Outline of the ISBD and punctuation ............................... 13 A.4 Sources of information ..................................................... 23 A.5 Language and script of the description ............................ 30 A.6 Abridgements and abbreviations ..................................... 31 A.7 Capitalization ................................................................... 33 A.8 Misprints ........................................................................... 34 A.9 Symbols, etc. ................................................................... 37 A.10 Imperfections ................................................................... 37 A.11 Examples ......................................................................... 38

SPECIFICATION OF ELEMENTS ............................................................. 39

0 Content form and media type area .................................. 39 0.1 Content form ...................................................................... 41 0.2 Media type ......................................................................... 47

1 Title and statement of responsibility area ........................ 51 1.1 Title proper ......................................................................... 55 1.2 Parallel title ........................................................................ 73 1.3 Other title information ......................................................... 79 1.4 Statement of responsibility ................................................. 91

2 Edition area .................................................................... 115 2.1 Edition statement ............................................................. 117 2.2 Parallel edition statement ................................................. 125 2.3 Statement of responsibility relating to the edition ............ 127 2.4 Additional edition statement ............................................. 129 2.5 Statement of responsibility relating to an additional edition

statement ......................................................................... 131 3 Material or type of resource specific area ...................... 133

3.1 Mathematical data (Cartographic resources) ................... 135 3.2 Music format statement (Notated music) ......................... 141 3.3 Numbering (Serials) ......................................................... 143

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4 Publication, production, distribution, etc., area .............. 151 4.1 Place of publication, production and/or distribution ......... 155 4.2 Name of publisher, producer and/or distributor................ 165 4.3 Date of publication, production and/or distribution .......... 177 4.4 Place of printing or manufacture ...................................... 187 4.5 Name of printer or manufacturer ...................................... 191 4.6 Date of printing or manufacture ....................................... 192

5 Material description area................................................ 193 5.1 Extent ............................................................................... 195 5.2 Other physical details ....................................................... 211 5.3 Dimensions ...................................................................... 219 5.4 Accompanying material statement ................................... 227

6 Series and multipart monographic resource area .......... 229 6.1 Title proper of a series or multipart monographic resource

232 6.2 Parallel title of a series or multipart monographic resource

235 6.3 Other title information of a series or multipart monographic

resource ........................................................................... 237 6.4 Statement of responsibility relating to a series or multipart

monographic resource ..................................................... 239 6.5 International standard number of a series or multipart

monographic resource ..................................................... 241 6.6 Numbering within a series or multipart monographic

resource ........................................................................... 242 7 Note area ....................................................................... 245

7.0 Notes on the content form and media type area and for special types of material .................................................. 247

7.1 Notes on the title and statement of responsibility area .... 251 7.2 Notes on the edition area and the bibliographic history of the

resource ........................................................................... 261 7.3 Notes on the material or type of resource specific area .. 271 7.4 Notes on the publication, production, distribution, etc., area

275 7.5 Notes on the material description area ............................ 279 7.6 Notes on the series and multipart monographic resources

area .................................................................................. 283 7.7 Notes relating to the contents .......................................... 285 7.8 Notes on the resource identifier and terms of availability

area .................................................................................. 289 7.9 Notes on the issue, part, iteration, etc., that forms the basis

of the description .............................................................. 291 7.10 Other notes ...................................................................... 293 7.11 Notes relating to the copy in hand ................................... 295

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8 Resource identifier and terms of availability area .......... 297 8.1 Resource Identifier ........................................................... 299 8.2 Key title (Continuing resources) ....................................... 303 8.3 Terms of availability .......................................................... 305

Appendices .............................................................................................. 307

Appendix A: Multilevel description ................................................. 309 Appendix B: Bi-directional records ................................................. 313 Appendix C: Bibliography ............................................................... 315 Appendix D: Abbreviations ............................................................. 317 Appendix E: Glossary ..................................................................... 319

Index .............................................................................................. 345

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INTRODUCTION

The International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD) is intended to serve as a principal standard to promote universal bibliographic control, that is, to make universally and promptly available, in a form that is internationally acceptable, basic bibliographic data for all published resources in all countries. From the beginning, the main goal of the ISBD has been to provide consistency when sharing bibliographic information.

The ISBD is the standard that determines the data elements to be recorded or transcribed in a specific sequence as the basis of the description of the resource being catalogued. In addition, it employs prescribed punctuation as a means of recognizing and displaying data elements and making them understandable independently of the language of the description.

A new Statement of International Cataloguing Principles was published by IFLA in 2009.1 In these principles, which replace and broaden the Paris Principles2 of 1961, the fifth section is devoted to bibliographic description where it is stated that Descriptive data should be based on an internationally agreed standard.3 A footnote identifies the ISBD as the standard for the library community, as the statement of principles is intended not only for libraries but also for archives, museums, and other communities.

Although the development of this standard was originally motivated by the automation of bibliographic control as well as by the economic necessity of sharing cataloguing, the ISBD continues to be useful for and applicable to bibliographic descriptions of all kinds of published resources in any type of catalogue, whether manual or machine based. Those agencies using national and multinational cataloguing codes could apply this internationally approved standard conveniently in their catalogues.

Work on the ISBD has been guided by the following objectives and principles:

The ISBD provides consistent stipulations for description of all types of published resources, to the extent that uniformity is possible, and specific stipulations for specific types of resources as required to describe those resources.

1 IFLA Cataloguing Principles: the Statement of International Cataloguing Principles (ICP) and its Glossary in 20 Languages. Ed. by Barbara B. Tillett and Ana Lupe Cristn. (Mnchen: K.G. Saur, 2009). Also available at http://www.ifla