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Unit 13: Records and Reports

Bibliographic records for international exchange; Notes
Bibliographic records for cooperative systems;
Records for use in individual libraries;

Records for abstracting and indexing services;
Records for subject bibliographies/authors’ bibliographies;
Records for use in online information retrieval systems (including WWW); and

Records in book trade.
Bibliographic record may be viewed as a package of data, the content of which varies according
to the different needs and purposes for which it is intended. The selection and inclusion of data
elements for the bibliographic record must be based on user needs. The aggregate of data in a
bibliographic record are broadly divided into following groups:

Descriptive data elements (as defined in the ISBDs);
Data elements used in headings for persons, corporate bodies, titles and subjects. They
function as filing devices or index entries;
Data elements used to organise a file or file of records (such as classification numbers,
abstracts, summaries or annotations); and

Data specific to the copies of the library collections (such as accession numbers and call
numbers).

Bibliographic record should be constructed according to the agreed rules and standards. There
are many widely used standards for constructing bibliographic records (e.g., AACR2 for national
bibliographies or library catalogues) but the most striking contribution has been made by IFLA,
with its programme of ISBDs. ISBD (G) [General International Standard Bibliographic Description]
is intended to provide the generalised framework for descriptive information required in a
range of different bibliographic activities. The bibliographic data elements which are required
for this purpose are set out in eight areas: Title and statement of responsibility – Edition –
Material specific data – Publication, distribution data – Physical description – Series – Notes –
Standard number and terms of availability.
Each of these areas is further divided into discrete elements. The elements are cited in given
order and separated by the punctuation prescribed. The complete set of ISBD data is sufficient to
ensure identification of bibliographic item and many cataloguing codes (including AARC2)
have adopted ISBD (G) as a basis for their own rules for description. The family of ISBDs (includes
standard for cartographic materials, non-book materials, printed music, antiquarian books,
monographs, serials and other continuing materials and electronic resources) is utilised for the
purpose of bibliographical description but the choice and form of access points are based on the
Paris Principles (the statement of principles adopted at the International Conference on
Cataloguing Principles held in Paris in 1961) adopted in national cataloguing rules. Bibliographic
formats (such as MARC family, CCF, UNIMARC, etc.) have also applied ISBDs as base format.

But cataloguing codes and bibliographic formats cannot represent all the characteristics of
different digital information resources. As a result various general and domain specific metadata
schemas (such as Dublin Core, FGDC, ONIX, GILS, etc.) have been developed for description of
electronic resources.
Ranganathan applied scientific method to cataloguing and result was the formulation of
normative principles of cataloguing, called Canons of Cataloguing. Prof. G. Bhattacharya mapped

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