Bibliographic record

Bibliographic record is a term of the library and book science, with which it is listed as titles are added to library catalogs and bibliographies. Uniform rules are not here because the requirements are extremely different to title shots. On the one hand, uniformity and standardization is desirable, it allows the rapid comparison of entries and the merging of information in databases, on the other hand, the figure of idiosyncrasies in individual areas is sought: codices of the Middle Ages and prints the early modern period trying in to capture bibliographies with the peculiarities of expenditure, so that one can identify themselves variants of a single edition yet.

Bibliographic record and Katalogisat are thereby usually used interchangeably, the term referred Katalogisat more records, including other types of data as images of book titles.

Quick guide for the detailed surveying of printed titles of the early modern period

The optimum is a reproduction of the title page, it will be supplied in various bibliographies and catalogs often in small pictures. Commenting standard bibliographies such as Gerhard Haupt thin personal bibliographies to the printing of the Baroque, Vol 1-6 (Stuttgart, 1990-93 ) offer different, but ultimately similar alternatives of transcription of the title page. The figure can be transcribed in some detail in this pattern. The aim of transcription is to make visible what information the title page in which emphasis offered (hence the note a newline) and which is not offered (here about missing the indication of the author, she finds herself only with the following issues on the title page ):

The full title includes recording statements on frontispiece and engravings - information omitted in the present example. In -depth bibliographic record it is important to note, in which parts of the book breaks down. The bibliographers the present edition is mostly ( with " location on ", ie specifying the library and the signature) described. If other issues tie together the individual parts differently, which is listed for knowledge of the Governing bibliography specially. Just as well, the bibliography Rende note and record the correct binding, as it present copy of her departed ( here there are sometimes significant differences, such as when contents have been assembled according to conjecture the binder, either before or after the text block ). The page count can unpaginierte sheets (one sheet has a front and a back) include or introduce its own pagination Latin, as in the following title shot. Counting begins with the title page, note the square brackets if the information is given in the book, or were introduced by the bibliographical leaders. The bibliographic record listed, the individual parts of the book such as dedication, readers preface, text, contents, register, and they noted details: signatures and dating are important here - in the following shows that the title certainly did not come out anonymously, the author gave in this case, however, not to where and when he separated from his manuscript. The last note applies here to the format - 4 ° Quart:

Should the bibliography Rende intervene in the text and provide additional information or corrections about at pseudonyms, he should do this by setting the square brackets visible so that remains recognizable, what information the reader actually delivered the book and how.

Library-related regulations

Among the most important regulations of Library Science, about how publications in index cards or records are received, the following pages provide more detailed information:

• Rules for alphabetical cataloging (RAK )
• Prussian instructions ( PI)
• Berlin's instructions (BA )
• Anglo - American Cataloguing Rules (AACR )
• Recommendations of the Working Group on Early Printed Books in the GBV for the development of age prints up to 1850 and more

See also: library classification, descriptive cataloging

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