Shahrazad asked:
>I have a book that doesn't have any information on date, publication, manuf= >acture, distribution, anything. Then how and in which field I can indicate = >the information is taken from.... Imprint "not identified" patrons tells patrons nothing, and is space consuming. The cataloguer is in a better place to guess than the patron at at the catalogue. Total lack of information is most common for self published materials. One could do, for example: 264 2 $a[Colorado?] :$b[Joe Smith?],$c[201-?] for a currently received probably self published item in your state. But a Web search should give you the author's home city, RDA purists would have you do $c[between 2000 and 2013?], or [before 2013], but the AACR2 form works better in a multilingual situation. Web searches are a great help. I find one can almost always find something. To record where you found data use field 588, e.g.: 588 $aPublication information based on author's website viewed ... __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod (m...@slc.bc.ca) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________