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/
___} |__ \__________________________________________________________
