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Sequence of statements # - Not applicable/No information provided/Earliest 2 - Intervening 3 - Current/Latest |
Function of entity 0 - Production 1 - Publication 2 - Distribution 3 - Manufacture 4 - Copyright notice date |
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Statement relating to the publication, printing, distribution, issue, release, or production of a work.
Information in field 264 is similar to information in field 260 (Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)). Field 264 is useful for cases where the content standard or institutional policies make a distinction between functions
First Indicator - Sequence of statements
Used when a resource is first cataloged. Information given in value # is not changed (unless incorrect or earlier issues of a serial are later available with differing publishing information).
Defined as “No information provided” for monographic works that are complete as first issued.
Used when the place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture or the name of the producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer changes. Additional production, publication, distribution, manufacture statements between the earliest and latest may also be recorded with first indicator value 2.
Used when the name of the producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer changes, or when the place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture associated with the earliest statement changes. The current statement may be added with first indicator value 3. Data given in a subsequent statement can be changed to reflect the current information when only the earliest and most current data is needed.
Second Indicator - Function of entity
Field contains a statement relating to the inscription, fabrication, construction, etc., of a resource in an unpublished form.
Field contains a statement relating to the publication, release, or issuing of a resource.
Field contains a statement relating to the distribution of a resource.
Field contains a statement relating to the printing, duplicating, casting, etc., of a resource in a published form.
Field contains a date associated with a notice of protection under copyright or a similar regime. Copyright dates include phonogram dates (i.e., dates associated with claims of protection for sound recordings).
$a - Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture
264 | #1$aBoston : $b[publisher not identified], $c2010. | ||||||||
264 | #3$aCambridge : $bKinsey Printing Company [On source: Published in Boston, 2010; Cambridge -- Kinsey Printing Company; No distribution information] |
$b - Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer
264 | #1$a[Place of publication not identified] : $bABC Publishers, $c2009. | ||||||||
264 | #2$aSeattle : $bIverson Company [On source: ABC Publishers, 2009; distributed by Iverson Company, Seattle] |
$c - Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice
264 | #4$c©2002 | ||||||||
264 | #4$cⓅ1983 | ||||||||
264 | #4$ccopyright 2005 |
$3 - Materials specified
Information to differentiate the multiple statements of the described materials to which the field applies.
$6 - Linkage
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.
$7 - Data provenance
See description of this subfield in Appendix J: Data Provenance Subfields.
$8 - Field link and sequence number
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.
Spacing - No spaces are used between letters of initials, including adjacent initials in personal names.
264 | #1$aColumbia, S.C. :$bH.W. Williams Co.,$c1982. |
One space is used between two or more distinct initialisms (or sets of initials), acronyms, or abbreviations appearing in juxtaposition.
264 | #1$aWashington :$bU.S. G.P.O.,$c1981- |