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MRIs: AACR2 Rule Interpretations

12.0

Revise 12.1C in contents to read:

12.1C. Media terms

12.0B3

Delete second sentence.

12.1-12

Delete [GMD] from all examples.

12.1B1

Revise example after second paragraph to read:

Housing starts

Note: Title appears on volume 1, number 1 as: Housing sarts


12.1C

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12.1C. Optional addition. Media terms

12.1C1

Delete and replace with:

11.1C. Optional addition. Media terms

1.9C1. Optionally, Give the appropriate media terms as instructed in 1.1C..

Display media terms after title proper, (except for [unmediated : volume : text]), or preceding all descriptive data in accord with International Bibliographic Description (ISBD) Area 0, or substitute icons based on MARC21 fixed fields.

12.2B1

Revise examples to read:

Northern edition.

Édition pour le médecin.

Airmail edition.

Braille edition.

Library edition.

Microform edition.

English edition.

Édition française.

Reprint edition.

Second edition.

Fifth ed. (abbreviation appears on source of information)

12.2B3

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Canadian edition = Édition canadienne.

12.2D1

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English edition, second edition.

12.3B1

Revise second, through seventh examples to read:

Papers on formal linguistics. – Number 1 –

Policy publications review. – Volume 1, number 1 –

Poetry North-east. – Issue number 1 –

Magic touch. – Part 1 –

Miscellaneous reports on biodiversity. – - number 10

Word processing report. – International edition. – Vol. 1, no. 6 – (abbreviations appear on source of information)

12.3C1

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Commonwealth immigration. – January/February 1964 –

Daily mirror. -- -Dec. 31, 1999 (abbreviation appears on source of information)

12.3C4

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Selected publications in European languages : SPEL. – No. 1 (Feb. 1973) – (abbreviation appears on source of information)

New locations. – Number 1 (April/May 1973) –

Renewable energy bulletin. – Volume 1, number 1 (January/March 1974) –

The musical mainstream / Division for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress. – Volume 1, number 1 (January-February 1977) –


IEEE transactions on acoustics, speech, and signal processing. – Volume AASP-22, number 1 (February 1974) –


12.3D1

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[Part 1] –

( Subsequent issues numbered Part 2, Part 3, etc.)

[Number 1] –

[1998] –

(An annual report)


12.3E1

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Volume 3, number 7 – =number 31 –

12.3F1

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Volume 3, number 6 (August/September 1970) – volume 5, number 3 (March 1972)


-volume 10, number 12 (December 1995)

12.3G1

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Volume 1, number 1 (November 1943)-volume 10, number 12 (June 1953) ; Number 1 (July 1974) –

Volume 1, number 1 (January 1995)-volume 4, number 12 (December 1998); January 1999 –

Volume 1, number 1 (June 1986)-volume 8, number 12 (December 1993) ; new series, Volume 1, number 1 (January 1994 –

Number 1-number 6 ; [new series], Number 1 –

Number 1-number 6 ; [new series], Number 1-number 3 ; [third series], Number 1 –

Volume 1, number 1 (January 1992)-volume 4, number 3 (March 1995) ; [new series], Volume 1, number 1 (January 1996) –

Number 1-number 6 ; [second series], number 1 - ; - third series, Number 104 ; fourth series, Number 1 –


12.4F2

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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [1996]

Note: Began in March 1982; ceased in September 1996.

(Description not based on first or last issue or part; beginning and ending dates of publication known)


12.5B1

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1 volume

1 volume (loose-leaf)


12.5B2

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103 volumes

2 volumes (loose-leaf)

( Updating loose-leaf service issued in two binders)


12.5B3

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volumes of braille

12 volumes of music (braille)

2 volumes of braille (loose-leaf)

12.5C1

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volumes : illustrations (some coloured)

slides : sound, colour

12.5D1

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23 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm

filmstrips : colour ; 35 mm

16 film cassettes : sound, colour ; standard 8 mm

1 volume (loose-leaf) ; 28 cm

CDs ; 4 3/4 in.

[RDA has all measurements in metric, but allows for other units; LC retains inches for discs, but allows metric for everything else.]

12.5D2

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volumes : illustrations ; 27-32 cm

volumes (loose-leaf) ; 26-29 cm

models : colour, plastic ; 45 x 60 x 5 cm or smaller

(Item is a cartographic resource)


12.5E1

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volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm + slides

filmstrips : colour ; 35 mm + booklets

108 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm + 18 maps (colour ; 65 x 90 cm or smaller)

(Ceased serial)

volumes (loose-leaf) : forms ; 25 cm + 2 computer discs (3 ½ in.)

12.6B1

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(Public Health Service publication ; number 1124)

12.7B1

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Monthly (except August)

Bimonthly, November/December 1980-March/April 1992; monthly, May 1992. –

Revised edition issued every 4 months.


12.7B3

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Title from title-screen (viewed on January 20, 2000)

(Combined source of title note and item described note)


Title from home page (viewed on January 18, 2009)

(Combined source of title note and item described note)


12.7B4

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Title history: Australian industrial safety, health & welfare, 1979-March 1996

Title history: Securities law, fraud-SEC rule 10b-5, 1967-October? 1979; Securities fraud and commodities fraud, 1979-December 1986


Former title: Washington newspapers database (viewed on October 6, 1999)


Former titles: Euroinfo international (viewed on May 10, 1998); Telephone directories international (viewed on September 9, 1999)


12.7B4

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Issues from January 1928-July 1952 have title: The magazine antiques; issues from August 1952-February 1971 have title: Antiques; issues March 1971- have title: The magazine antiques

(Title proper in description: Antiques)


12.7B4

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Title on added title page: Bulletin / Société canadienne d’histoire orale & sonore


Volumes from 1994-1998 have added title pages in Uzbek

12.7B6

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Volume 1, number 3 has subtitle: Studies in educational administration

12.7B7

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Official journal of : Concrete Products Association, October 1920-April 1930

12.7B7

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Issued by: Department of Health and Welfare, Bureau of Vital Statistics, 1964-1977; Department of Health and Human Services, Bureau of Vital Records, 1978 –


12.7B8

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English edition of: Bulletin critique du livre français

12.7B8


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Revised edition of: USMARC format for bibliographic data, 1994 edition, © 1994; and: Canadian MARC communication format for bibliographic data, 1994


12.7B8

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Revised edition of: Canadian regulation of international trade and investment, 1986


Revised edition of: Mental capacity : medical and legal aspects of aging, 1977

12.7B9

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Edition statement varies: International edition, 1998-

12.7B9

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Edition statement from container label

12.7B10

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Issues for August 1973-December 1974 also designated: volume 1, number 7-volume 2, number 12.

Volume numbering irregular: volumes 15-18 omitted, volumes 20-21 repeated .

Numbering begins each year with volume 1.

Some numbers issued in combined form.

12.7B10

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Each issue covers: April 1-March 31.

12.7B11

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Suspended with volume 11.

Ceased with number 25 in 1987.

12.7B13

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Volume 7, number 6 contains wall chart (colour ; 26 x 40 cm)

Accompanied by CD-ROM, number 19-

12.7B16

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Volumes 1-4 also issued on microfiche

12.7B17

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Indexes: Volumes 1 (1927)-25 (1951) in volume 26, number 1.

Indexes: Volumes 10-17 issued as volume 18, number 3.

Indexes: Subject index, volumes 1-11 in volume 13. Author title index, volumes 1-11 in volume 14.


Indexes covering every 5 volumes (beginning with volume 71 and excluding financial volumes) issued with title: Consolidated index-digest of reports of the Interstate Commerce Commission involving motor carrier operating rights.


12.7B20

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Superintendent of Documents number: HE 20.3047:

12.7B21

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Library lacks: Volume 12 and volume 16.

Volume 17 lacks 3 illustrations.

12.7B23

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Description based on: Volume 1, number 3 (August 1999) ; title from cover.

(Combined item described note and source of title note)


Description based on: Number 8 (January-June 1997) ; latest issue consulted: number 12. (January-June 1999)


12.7B23

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Description based on: 1994 edition through update 10.

Description based on version consulted: October 26, 2000.

Description based on contents viewed on October 21, 1999.

Title from title bar (viewed on January 13, 2000)

(Combined item described note and source of title note)