Bibliographic Formats and Standards

Fourth Edition

The information in Technical Bulletin 261 has not yet been incorporated into Bibliographic Formats and Standards. TB 261 covers these bibliographic fields:
New: 264, 344, 345, 346, 347, 377
Revised: DtSt, Lang, 034, 041, 043, 082, 084, 260, 340, 382, 383

For information on RDA in MARC, see:
OCLC’s About RDA page
The Library of Congress RDA in MARC page

Contents
About this guide	PDF [207K/5pp.]
1 Introduction	PDF [217K/9pp.]
2 Online cataloging	PDF [354K/23pp.]
3 Special cataloging guidelines	PDF [366K/29pp.]
4 When to input a new record	PDF [275K/16pp.]
5 Quality assurance	PDF [358K/27pp.]
Fixed-field elements and 006	PDF [596K/83pp.]
0xx fields	PDF [1227K/220pp.]
1xx fields	PDF [507K/19pp.]
2xx fields	PDF [477K/61pp.]
3xx fields	PDF [382K/45pp.]
4xx fields	PDF [185K/7pp.]
5xx fields	PDF [730K/109pp.]
6xx fields	PDF [563K/86pp.]
7xx fields	PDF [712K/109pp.]
8xx fields	PDF [389K/46pp.]
9xx fields	PDF [292K/20pp.]
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Last updated: October 2011
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ISBN: 978-1-55653-315-0

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