Thanks Helen – here are my thoughts (just off the top of my head)

 

Copyright date:

 

This is one I went back and forth on over the last few weeks, putting it in and taking it out again as I changed my mind! I decided to interpret “Copyright date is a core element if neither the date of publication nor the date of distribution is identified” (the LC Policy statement) as being ‘only put it in if it’s different’ . That said, there are many times it only gives a copyright date and I’ve just used that as a ‘published’ date… I suspect it may come down to time spent (i.e. for the majority it’s the same so only put in if different – more common in eg CD/DVDs)

 

Relationship designator

 

Again I changed my mind and went for only putting it in if it’s not obvious (possibly again for reasons of time (and clarity – it might make it more obvious then when the relationship isn’t straightforward)

 

Related works/manifestations

 

Tricky one – I would generally only currently put in where the relationship was obvious (ie: where it had changed title between editions) but happy to change my opinion if there’s a good argument for it – I could see the point if we were say dealing with a re-telling of a classic story…

 

Other query

 

I wasn’t sure re: the hyphenation of the ISBN (am not sure anyway under AACR2!) – I noticed some people actually specified ISBN and I did wonder about that but can’t think why I decided against it!

 

Katrina

 

 

Thank you to everyone who has submitted a version of record 2.

It’s time to open up discussion on anything you’d like to raise.  It’s going to be very useful to talk about the differences we see in records, and on some issues we may be able to come to consensus, while other areas will remain open to interpretation!  Any comments we make won’t be criticisms of differences in records, so please feel free to discuss. 

 

A few things I’ve noticed to start us off…

 

*some of us have included a second 264 field with a © date

* some of us (including me!) have included a relationship designator of ‘author’ – what’s the feeling about whether this is necessary on a straightforward record? 

* A few people have included related works/manifestations

 

Plenty of other differences too, so let’s open the discussion

 

Helen

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