Music Library Association Best Practices for date of manufacture
Prerecording
Prerecording
Routinely record the element if it has been used to infer a date of publication. In other cases: Record the element if deemed useful for identification or selection.
PCC Core for rare materials when present in the manifestation, if appropriate.
PCC practice: For rare materials, transcribe date(s) of manufacture when present in the manifestation, if appropriate (see DCRM(B,C,G,M,S) 4G). Recording the element is not required when a date of manufacture is not present in the manifestation.
LC/PCC practice: See the Metadata Guidance documentation: Manifestation elements
LC/PCC practice: See the Metadata Guidance documentation: Timespan.
Option
Recording
Recording
In MARC: Record as an unstructured description using field 264 (second indicator 3) subfield $c. Record as a structured description using field 008 bytes 07-10 if appropriate.
Multiple dates and date types may be encoded in field 008/06 and 008/07-14. Consult OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards for guidance in determining precedence of date type when coding one or more dates in field 008.
See examples in MARC format: date of manufacture
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option. Supply the value in square brackets.
LC/PCC practice: See the Metadata Guidance documentation: Manifestation: date of production.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option, following the date with a hyphen.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option if the value for the first part or iteration is not known. Precede the date with a hyphen.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option. Separate the dates with a hyphen.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: If a date of manufacture is the same for all issues, parts, or iterations, record only that date as the single date.
Recording an unstructured description
Option
LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option.
Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Option
LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option. Supply the value in square brackets.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.
PCC practice: For rare materials, Apply the option. Supply the correct year in square brackets following the transcribed value.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option to record a numerical date instead of giving the chronogram. Supply the value in square brackets.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.
Date of manufacture not identified
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Supply a date of manufacture if possible, rather than give "date of manufacture not identified". Follow the instructions at Manifestation: date of manufacture. Recording an unstructured description. Supply the value in square brackets.
PCC practice: For rare materials, applying the option is not required.
Recording a structured description
Recording an identifier
Recording an IRI
Document Date: 2025/03/25
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