IT'S A DATE: PUBLICATION AND COPYRIGHT DATES September 2018 Online with the CMC, Shelley Stone, Cataloging Supervisor, IHLS, sstone@illinoisheartland.org
Publication Date Core element Usually found on the title page or title page verso Could also be found on the cover, caption, title page substitute, colophon, etc. Most important date when matching What does it look like? Published in 2004 Revised edition 2012 May accompany the publisher s name on the title page
Publication Date Title Page A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond Title page verso Puffin Books Published by the Penguin Group New York, New York, USA Puffin Books First published by Atheneum, 1976 Published in Puffin Books, 1987 Copyright Nancy Bond, 1976
Publication Date Title Page INVISIBLE STANLEY by Jeff Brown pictures by Scott Nash Title page verso Invisible Stanley Text copyright 1996 by Jeff Brown Illustrations copyright 2003 by Scott Nash HarperCollins Children s Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY 10019 HarperTrophy PZ7.B81422In 1996 96-52 An imprint of HarperCollins Newly illustrated Harper Trophy edition, 2003
Publication Date Title page THE COW-TAIL SWITCH AND OTHER WEST AFRICAN STORIES Title page verso Copyright 1947 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. Published, January, 1947 By Harold Courlander and George Herzog Second printing, July, 1949 Drawings by Madye Lee Chastain Third printing, May, 1954 Fourth printing, October, 1957 Fifth printing, May, 1961 Sixth printing, November, 1962 Holt, Rinehart and Winston Seventh printing, May, 1965 New York * Chicago * San Francisco Eighth printing, March, 1966
Publication Date Title page Sister Sister SUMMER DAZE Janet Quin-Harkin Title page verso A Minstrel Paperback Original A Minstrel Book published by Pocket Books Copyright 1997 by Paramount Pictures A Minstrel Book ISBN: 0-671-00287-2 Published by Pocket Books First Minstrel Books printing, August 1998 New York London Toronto
Future Dates You receive a newly-published book by a best-selling author. The title page verso has Published in 2019. Is it okay to have a future date in a bibliographic record? Yes
Copyright Date If there is no publication date, look for the copyright date. A copyright date will either have a copyright symbol or the word copyright in front of the date. Can be used as an implied publication date and will appear in the bibliographic record in brackets: [2005] The copyright date is not required in a bib record Do you have a local practice?
Copyright Date Title Page Tom Horn Blood on the Moon Title page verso Copyright 2001 Chip Carlson and Susan Carlson Dark History of the Murderous Cattle Detective Chip Carlson With a foreword by Larry D. Ball High Plains Press
Copyright Date Title Page S T I C K S CJ Swan Title page verso STICKS Copyright 2016 by CJ Swan for the text Copyright 2017 by Dana Zimmerman for the illustrations Illustrations by Dana ISBN 978-0-9986976-0-4 Zimmerman LCCN 2017910089 SWAN STORY
Multiple Copyright Dates Title page Knitting Made Easy 3 th Edition by Barbara Aytes Title page verso Published by Coats & Clark, Greenville, South Carolina 2005, 2007, 2009 Coats & Clark Greenville, SC
Copyright Renewal Dates For works published before 1978, ignore the copyright renewal date. Use only the original copyright date. For works published after 1977, give the copyright renewal date.
Copyright Renewal Dates Title page Title page verso A Christmas Carol Published by Grosset & Dunlap 1939, renewed 1943 By Charles Dickens Illustrated by William Mark Young Grosset & Dunlap
Cataloger-supplied Dates The cataloger should estimate a date if no dates are available Estimated dates are recorded in brackets If based on available information such as a printing date: [2012] If cataloger made best guess: [2012?] If only a range of dates can be estimated: [between 1990 and 2000] If no date can be estimated, as a last resort: [date of publication not identified]
Dates in MARC Records MARC tag 264, subfield c Publication and copyright dates are recorded in separate fields 264 _1 $a Chicago, Illinois : $b Lion Publishers, $c 2012. 264 _4 $c 2010 No ending punctuation on the 264 for copyright date Since publication date is a core element in RDA, record the copyright date in brackets as an implied publication date if no publication date is available 264 _1 $achicago, Illinois : $b Lion Publishers, $c [2012] 264 _4 $c 2012
Dates in MARC Records Fixed field elements Coded based on the dates in 264 subfield c DtSt: Type of Date/Publication Status Categorizes the type of date, i.e., s for single date, or t for publication and copyright dates Dates: Date 1 and Date 2 Enter publication date as the first date Enter copyright date as the second date
Sound Recording Dates Usually appear on label If not, dates should be taken from the container or accompanying material, in that order Preceded by a phonogram copyright symbol Can be used as an implied publication date and will appear in the bibliographic record in brackets: [2005]
Sound Recording Dates Dates to keep in mind LPs first available in 1948 Pre-recorded audio cassettes first available in 1965 Audio compact discs first available in 1982 MP3-CDs first available in 2000 Playaways first available in 2005 Streaming audio first available in 1999
Videorecording Dates Usually found on the container The copyright date on the film itself (screens) is usually when it was filmed not when it was released as a videorecording Since publication date is a core element, the copyright date of the videorecording is used as an implied publication date and will appear in the bibliographic record in brackets: [2005] Watch for copyright date of package and design
Videorecording Dates Dates to keep in mind Blu-ray discs first became available in 2006 DVD-Videos first available in 1996 (Japan) and 1997 (USA) Streaming video first available in 1999 VHS cassettes first available in 1976
Resources OCLC s Bibliographic Formats and Standards https://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en.html MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ RDA Toolkit http://access.rdatoolkit.org/