TECHNICAL NOTICE (August 29, 2006)
Additions to the MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description
Conventions
Network Development and MARC Standards Office
Library of Congress
The codes listed below have been recently approved for use in MARC 21
records. The codes will be added to the online MARC Code Lists for
Relators, Sources, Description Conventions.
The codes should not be used in exchange records until after October 29,
2006. This 60-day waiting period is required to provide MARC 21
implementers time to include newly defined codes in any validation tables
they may apply to the MARC fields where the codes are used.
Classification Sources
The following codes are for use in subfield $2 in field 084 in
Bibliographic and Community Information records, (Other Classification
Number), in subfield $2 in field 084 in Classification records
(Classification Scheme and Edition) and in subfield $2 in field 065 in
Authority records (Other Classification Number).
Additions:
acmccs - ACM Computing Classification System [1998 Version]
(http://www.acm.org/class/ [use after October 29, 2006]
fplfcs - Finnish public libraries forest classification system
http://ykl.kirjastot.fi/ [use after October 29, 2006]
gfdc - Global forest classification system
(GFDC) http://iufro.andornot.com/GFDCDefault [use after October 29, 2006]
Description Conventions
The following code is for use in subfield $e in field 040 (Cataloging
Source) in Authority and Bibliographic records.
Addition:
cco - Cataloging cultural objects: a guide to describing
cultural works and their images (Chicago: Visual Resources Association,
American Library Association) [use after October 29, 2006]
Term, Name, Title Sources
The following codes are for use in subfield $2 in Bibliographic and
Community Information records in 6xx fields and in subfield $f in field
040 (Cataloging Source) in Authority records.
Additions:
gst - Gay studies thesaurus: a controlled vocabulary for
indexing and accessing materials of relevance to gay culture, history,
politics and psychology (Princeton, NJ: Michel) [use after October 29,
2006]
itglit - International thesaurus of gay and lesbian index
terms (Chicago?: Thesaurus Committee, Gay and Lesbian Task Force, American
Library Association) [use after October 29, 2006]
qtglit - A queer thesaurus: an international thesaurus of gay and
lesbian index terms (Amsterdam: Homodok) [use after October 29, 2006]
snt - Sexual nomenclature: a thesaurus (Boston: G.K. Hall) [use
after October 29, 2006]
The Library of Congress, Network Development and MARC Standards Office
provides information about existing and newly assigned MARC codes on its
Web site (www.loc.gov/marc/) as well as notices such as these to
subscribers to its MARC listserv. ([log in to unmask]).
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