CONTENTS

Introduction

Preliminary notes

Specification of elements

Appendices

1. Multi-level description
   
2. Bi-directional records

Appendices

APPENDIX A: MULTI-LEVEL DESCRIPTION

1. certain descriptions showing as the title proper the title common to the parts, with the titles of individual parts given in a contents note;

2. certain descriptions showing as the title proper the title of each individual part, with the title common to the parts given in the series area;

3. certain descriptions showing as the title proper a combination of (a) the title common to the parts and (b) the title of each individual part;

4. certain descriptions showing component part analysis (cf. the IFLA Guidelines for the Application of the ISBDs to the Description of Component Parts).

Multi-level description is based on the division of descriptive information into two or more levels. The first level contains information common to the whole or main item. The second and subsequent levels contain information relating to the individual separable unit. The process is carried out for as many levels as are required to describe fully the item and its units.

At each level the elements of the description are given in the same order and with the same punctuation as for unitary items. Some elements may be recorded at more than one level. When the title of a unit of an item is preceded by a number or unit designation, the two statements are separated by a colon, space (: ).

Examples

1. The description of physically separate units of a multi-part item.

   Great Britain [GMD] : handbook for travellers / by Karl Baedeker. - 10th ed. / by H.A. Piehler. - Freiburg : Baedeker ; London : Allen & Unwin ; New York : Macmillan, 1966-1968. - 3 vol.

   Vol. 1: Southern England and East Anglia. - 1966. - lvi, 260 p., 27 leaves of plates (some fold.) : col. maps, plans (some col.) ; 17 cm. - Col. map on front lining paper

   Vol. 2: Central England, Wales. - 1968. - lx, 264 p., 24 leaves of plates : col. maps, plans (some col.) ; 17 cm. - Col. map on front lining paper

   Remembrance of things past [GMD] / Marcel Proust ; translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff. - London : Chatto and Windus, 1957-  . - Translation of: A la recherche du temps perdu

   Vol. 1: Swann's way / illustrated by Philippe Jullian. - Translation of: Du côté de chez Swann. - This translation originally published 1922
   Part 1. - 1957 (1973 reprint). - 303 p., 4 leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm. - ISBN 0- 7011-1048-1 : £1.75

   The revolution for freedom [GMD] / William M. McCarthy, Daniel Powell, Edward F. Brufke. - Skokie, Ill. : United States History Society. - (Pictorial film encyclopedia of American history). - Correlated with: Pictorial encyclopedia of American history

   Part 2: 1775-1783. - 1965. - 1 filmstrip (51 fr.) : col. ; 35 mm + 2 pamphlets. - Pamphlets contain study guide and vocabulary drills

   Typewriting [GMD] / teacher, Guy Richards. - Chicago : TV College, WTTW-TV ; Lincoln, Neb. : distributed by Great Plains National Instructional Television Library

   Unit 2: Skill development
   Program 1: Skill drills : vertical and horizontal centering, typing all capitals. - 1973. - 1 videocassette [Philips] (30 min.) : b&w., sd. + Study guide

   Carte topographique, 1:25 000 : [de la France] [GMD] / Institut géographique national. - Scale 1:25 000 ; proj. conique conforme de Lambert. - Paris : I.G.N., 1978- . - 1 map in 2024 sheets : col. ; folded to 23 x 12 cm - New series at 1:25 000 from 1:50 000 series: "Série bleue"

   18-43: Auch, Est. - Ed. 2. - E 0°32'16"-E 0°43'4"/N 43°44'28"-N 43°33'40".-1979. - 1 sheet; 92 x 77cm.

2. The description of (physically) separate items supplementary to, or accompanying, another item

   A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight [GMD]. - Westminster : Constable, 1900-1912. - 5 vol. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports, ; 32 cm. - (The Victoria history of the counties of England)

   Index to the Victoria history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. - London : Constable, 1914. - 135 p. ; 32 cm

3. The description of the physically separate units of a multi-media item

   Minnesota politics and government [GMD] : a history resource unit / Educational Services Division, Minnesota Historical Society. - [St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society, 1976]. - 3 cases in 1 ; 34 cm.

   People serving people [GMD] / Judy A. Poseley. - 30 p. : ill. ; 28 cm

   Voices of Minnesota politicians [GMD]. - 1 sound disc : 33 1/3 rpm, mono ; 30 cm

APPENDIX B: BI-DIRECTIONAL RECORDS

Unless the direction of the script changes within an element, each change of script begins on a new line of the description at the appropriate margin. Prescribed punctuation is given at the start of the new element in the style required by the script, except for the prescribed point, comma or semi-colon which are given at the end of the previous element in the style required by the script (see also 0.4). Thus the point of the point, space dash, space (. - ) ends the previous element and the dash begins the following element on a new line at the appropriate margin.

ISBD(M) examples

= Dictionnaire moderne, français-arabe / par Mitri Elias.

= 4me éd., rev. et augm.

= Le Caire : Elias' Modern Press, 1974.

(Arabic data transcribed first)

Dictionnaire moderne, français-arabe / par Mitri Elias

- 4me éd., rev. et augm.

- Le Caire : Elias' Modern Press

(French data transcribed first)

The walk : a story

(Right-left data within a left-right title proper)

newly rev. and illustrated

(Left-right data within a right-left edition statement)