Non-Latin Scripts: Additional Requirements for Core Records

Revised July 1996

Go to: Introduction to BIBCO Core Record Standard; Chart and footnotes

M = Mandatory; MA = Mandatory if applicable

                                                        Latin           Non-Latin
                                                        Script [1]      Script [2]

                                           

1XX:  Main Entry                                        MA              MA [3]

245:  Transcription of title, other title, 
statement of responsibility                             M               MA [4]

246:  Varying form of title                             MA              MA

250:  Edition Statement                                 MA              MA 

260:  Imprint (place of publication, publisher, 
and date of publication)                                M               MA

4XX:  Series statement                                  MA              MA

5XX:  Note Fields                                                   
       500: Source of title if not 
              from t.p.                                 MA              MA [5]                
       502:  Dissertation note                                      
       505:  Contents note for multipart
              items with separate titles                MA              MA [6]                         
       533:  Reproduction note                          MA              MA                    

6XX:  Subject Headings                                  MA              MA [3]

7XX:  Added Entries                                     MA              MA [3]
      

Footnotes:

1. The Latin script data elements column is included only in order to indicate that romanized data should be supplied in all cases for which non-Latin data is supplied. One should consult specific core standards explicitly to find instructions about the application of the data elements that are required to create a core bibliographic record.
2. Any non-Latin data element that is not designated as "mandatory" or "mandatory if applicable" is not required although it may be optionally supplied. Note, however, if a non-Latin ISBN is to be entered, it must be entered in a subfield z.
3. Name entries may be entered as "paired" entries if the Latin entry is standard ALA/LC romanization of the vernacular heading. Non-Latin script headings are required if the Latin entry represents standard ALA/LC systematic romanization.
4. Catalogers may choose to abridge extremely long titles proper per AACR2r 1.1B4. It is not always necessary that the romanized and non-Latin script transcriptions of the title parallel each other in terms of fullness. If the cataloger chooses to abridge the romanized title, he or she may still transcribe the non-Latin script title in full.
5. Non-Latin script notes should not be constructed by the cataloger, but non-Latin data should also be represented in original script.
6. Contents must be present and may be entered in either romanization only or in the non-Latin script only.
7. Geographic subject entries may be entered as paired subjects when the authorized heading is in standard romanization. Translations of subject headings MAY be entered, but must be coded as non-standard (6XX with second indicator "4" or "653").