Cataloguing Section
ISBD Review Group
Invitation to:
World-Wide review of
ISBD(A): International Standard Bibliographic Description for Older Monographic Publications (Antiquarian)
2006 revision
Comments due by May 1, 2006
In the early 1990s, IFLA's Division of Bibliographic Control set up a Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR). Following adoption of the Study Group's recommendations, the ISBD Review Group was charged to initiate a full-scale review of the ISBDs. The objective of this project was to ensure conformity between the provisions of the ISBDs and FRBR's data requirements for the "basic level national bibliographic record" (BLNBR).
In the ISBDs, national bibliographic agencies are called upon to prepare the definitive description containing all the mandatory elements set out in the relevant ISBD insofar as the information is applicable to the publication being described. To facilitate implementation of this principle, the ISBDs designate as "mandatory" those data elements that are always to be included in records prepared by national bibliographic agencies, as "conditional" those that must be included under certain circumstances but that need not be included otherwise, and as "optional" those that may be included if desired but that are not required. Therefore, the main task in pursuing this revision project has entailed a close examination of the ISBD data elements that are mandatory to make optional those that are also optional in FRBR. (In no case is a data element mandatory in FRBR but optional in the ISBDs.)
The updated version of the ISBD(A) is now available at:
ISBD(A)_February2006.pdf
In addition to the changes resulting from the work outlined above, this version of ISBD(A) introduces other changes that are described by the chair of the ISBD(A) Study Group, Gunilla Jonsson, in her recapitulation of changes
Please refer to this document to obtain an overview to these important modifications in conjunction with your reading of the pdf version of the proposed revision of ISBD(A).
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The text itself is presented as a draft for world-wide review.
Comments on this draft revision of ISBD(A) are now being sought.
Please submit your comments to Gunilla Jonsson at the address below by May 1, 2006.
Reply to:
Gunilla Jonsson
Biblioteksråd / Deputy National Librarian
Avdelningen för Insamling & Dokumentation (IDA) /
Director, Department for Collection Development &
Documentation
Kungl. biblioteket
Box 5039
S-102 41 Stockholm, SWEDEN
Tel:+46 8 463 41 54
Fax: +46 8 463 43 81
E-mail:
gunilla.jonsson@kb.se
