When you are entering both a publication date and a copyright day in either 260 or two 264 fields, and you are coding the publication date in Date1 and the copyright date in the 008 Date2, Date Type must be 't' because: http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd008a.html "t - Publication date and copyright date
Date of publication/release/production/execution is present in 008/07-10 and a copyright notice date or phonogram copyright notice date is present in 008/11-14." In other words, if the date in Date 2 is a copyright date, then Date Type is coded 't' to *say* that the date in Date2 is a copyright date. Deborah - - - - - - - - Deborah Fritz TMQ, Inc. debo...@marcofquality.com www.marcofquality.com -----Original Message----- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of MCCUTCHEON, SEVIM Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 11:29 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] RDA dtst t + a 260/264 muse on training question I think perhaps despite the discussion, a question remains on coding in OCLC: If you're using 264s, and the date of publication and the date of copyright are the same, which is the proper code in the Date Type, s or t? Sevim McCutcheon Catalog Librarian, Asst. Prof. Kent State University Libraries 330-672-1703 lmccu...@kent.edu -----Original Message----- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of FOGLER, PATRICIA A GS-11 USAF AETC AUL/LTSC Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 1:12 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: [RDA-L] RDA dtst t + a 260/264 muse on training question I'll apologize in advance for the length of this. I'm trying to work up some RDA training for my copy cataloging staff and am working through a number of DLC RDA records that we are downloading. For the past year, we've had RDA records routed to our Non-DLC cataloger as we wait for RDA to "settle". Given that the numbers of RDA records are increasing & we're rapidly approaching April, I need to get some basic local guidelines set & move these back to our LC copy catalogers. I'm having particular issues with aspects of the publication area. My current question: I'm repeatedly seeing in the 008 dtst "t" used to indicate a publication and copyright date. While it is technically correct that both dates are given in this record, in the past we've mainly seen and used "t" in the dtst field when those dates differ, even by a year. What I'm seeing now is this sort of transcription (an "older" record still using 260): 260 Stanford, California : |b Stanford University Press, |c [2012], ©2012. Trying to make sense out of this coding I viewed this record in LC's catalog & they have used 008 dtst s with: 264 _1 |a Stanford, California : |b Stanford University Press, |c [2012] [title in question is Competitive strategies for the 21st century : theory, history, and practice] OCLC770694281 LC 2011052146 The 008 dtst coding of the record in LC's database (as opposed to the record we downloaded from OCLC which apparently has been edited separately) looks "more" correct to me. The former coding in OCLC looks like "overkill" -- How useful/necessary/correct is it to code this dtst to other than s & have duplicate dates in the 008 date area? This raises the larger question: for those working up training for your copy catalogers, at what point do you tell your people to leave copy as is, even if that isn't what you would personally prefer? To the average library user, both transcriptions give essentially the same information. At this point, given the variety of 260/264 interpretations/transcriptions, I'm seriously debating telling my copy catalogers "If the 008/260 in the LC copy record adequately conveys the book in hand & is essentially correct, leave it." While I appreciate cataloger discretion when I am creating a record or editing existing copy, I'm finding it exceedingly difficult to create these local copycat editing guidelines for the plethora of interpretations we're seeing. Impatiently waiting for RDA postings from ALA Midwinter to be posted. //SIGNED// Patricia Fogler Chief, Cataloging Section (AUL/LTSC) Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center DSN 493-2135 Comm (334) 953-2135
