In article <529c5974.5010...@hdm-stuttgart.de>, you wrote: >I'm not quite certain about the meaning of "faculty" in the element >"Dissertation or Thesis Information".
Another of those ambiguous English words. It can mean the teaching staff of an educational institution. But in this context, it means a subunit of a university which grants degrees. In other words, the body which granted the degree should be in 502. $b. As others have written, some also record the department, but in this case the "faculty" would be a school in a university. The difference between a college and university is that the university is made up of multiple faculties/schools/colleges, e.g.m liberal arts, medicine, music, law, agriculture, theology, etc., each of which may grant its own degrees. The institution in 502 $b may be traced with $edegree granting institution, whether the university or the school (aka faculty) within the university. Professional schools such as law, medicine, and theology often grant degrees rather than the larger university. __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod (m...@slc.bc.ca) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________