latest revision: 6 March 2020
Below is a summary field list for allegro L-format which is used to catalogue Chinese books in the Bodleian Library. Further information on each field together with examples can be found by clicking on the field numbers. This account aims to describe how bibliographical data is entered into the format, not how it is derived or composed from the materials to be catalogued; in this is we follow the rules of description prescribed in the first chapter of AACR2, with only minor departures (made over twenty years ago but now vindicated by RDA) to accommodate the peculiarities of Chinese books or to simplify the cataloguing process. In those fields where information is to be expressed in ISBD format, we follow the rules set out in IFLA's ISBD(M): International Standard Bibliographic Description for Monographic Publications.
| * | repeatable | |
| | | subfield (ASCII 124) | |
| Subfields can be entered in any order, except for subfield |9, which always comes last. | ||
| _ | indicator (ASCII 95) | |
| Indicators come at the end of the field, after all other data (including subfields) has been entered. The only ones currently in use are _j and _k which indicate that the romanisation in subfield |9 is in Japanese or Korean, and _d at the end of a shelfmark field which indicates that the item has been digitised. | ||
| Record-related information | ||
|---|---|---|
| #000 | record number | |
| |o | operator code | |
| #0rr | latest record revision | |
| |o | operator code | |
| #0rx | record link (contents) | |
| #0ry | record link (piece) | |
| #0rz | part of main record in which sub-record is contained (free text field) | |
| Coded information | ||
| #0ca | date type, date 1, date 2 | |
| #0cc | country of publication | |
| |t* | language of text | |
| |o* | language of original | |
| |a* | language of abstract | |
| #0cg | general and specific material designations | |
| #0cm | miscellaneous codes | |
| #0cp | printing process | |
| |f | font | |
| Standard numbers | ||
| #100* | ISBN | |
| |v | volume | |
| #110* | ISSN | |
| |v | volume | |
| #130* | tongyi shuhao | |
| |v | volume | |
| #140* | tongyi kanhao | |
| |v | volume | |
| #150* | guonei daihao | |
| |v | volume | |
| #160* | guowai daihao | |
| |v | volume | |
| Title / statement of responsibility | ||
| #200* | title = parallel title (ISBD punctuation) | |
| |9 | romanisation | |
| #230* | added title | |
| |9 | romanisation | |
| #240* | uniform title | |
| |9 | romanisation | |
| #290* | statement of responsibility | |
| Authors | ||
| #300* | (dynasty) personal author | |
| |d | dates | |
| |9 | romanisation | |
| #310* | (dynasty) corporate author | |
| |d | dates | |
| |9 | romanisation | |
| Multiple title / statement of responsibility groups | ||
| #201&c | Titles (or groups of titles) by different authors (or groups of authors). | |
| #200 title - 1st title / author group | ||
| #230 added title | ||
| #290 statement of responsibility | ||
| #300 author | ||
| ... | ||
| #201 title - 2nd title / author group | ||
| #231 added title | ||
| #291 statement of responsibility | ||
| #301 author | ||
| ... | ||
| #202 title - 3rd title / author group | ||
| #232 added title | ||
| #292 statement of responsibility | ||
| #302 author | ||
| ... | ||
| and so on, up to a theoretical 10th title / author group (#209&c). | ||
| Author authority | ||
| #3AA | (dynasty) personal author authority | |
| |d | dates | |
| |9 | romanisation | |
| #3AN | notes | |
| #3AR* | reference | |
| |n | notes on reference | |
| |9 | romanisation | |
| #3CA | (dynasty) corporate author authority | |
| |d | dates | |
| |9 | romanisation | |
| #3CN | notes | |
| #3CR | reference | |
| |n | notes on reference | |
| |9 | romanisation | |
| Edition | ||
| #400 | edition statement / statement of responsibility | |
| #405 | material specific details | |
| #409 | old books edition statement | |
| #410* | place | |
| |9 | romanisation | |
| #420* | publisher | |
| |f | function of publisher | |
| |9 | romanisation | |
| #430 | date | |
| #440* | added publisher (used only with #409) | |
| |p | place | |
| |d | date | |
| |9 | romanisation (of publisher) | |
| #446* | added congshu title (used only with #409) | |
| |d | date | |
| |9 | romanisation | |
| Multiple place : publisher groups | ||
| #411&c | There can be up to three place : publisher groups, which are handled as follows (cf. the title /statement of responsibility groups above): | |
| #410 : #420 first place : publisher group | ||
| #411 : #421 second place : publisher group | ||
| #412 : #413 third place : publisher group | ||
| Physical description | ||
| #470 | physical description | |
| Series | ||
| #500 | series 1 | |
| |n | number | |
| |s | statement of responsibility relating to series | |
| |i | ISSN of series | |
| |9 | romanisation | |
| #501 | series 1. subseries 1 | |
| |n | number | |
| |s | statement of responsibility relating to subseries | |
| |i | ISSN of subseries | |
| |9 | romanisation | |
| #502 | series 1. subseries 2 | |
| |n | number | |
| |s | statement of responsibility relating to subseries | |
| |i | ISSN of subseries | |
| |9 | romanisation | |
| Multiple series. subseries groups | ||
| #510&c | There can be three series/subseries groups tagged as follows, with the same possible subfields: | |
| #500 series 1 | ||
| #501 series 1. subseries 1 | ||
| #502 series 1. subseries 2 | ||
| #510 series 2 | ||
| #511 series 2. subseries 1 | ||
| #512 series 2. subseries 2 | ||
| #520 series 3 | ||
| #521 series 3. subseries 1 | ||
| #522 series 3. subseries 2 | ||
| Notes | ||
| #600* | general | |
| #640* | publisher of original (used only with #600) | |
| |p | place | |
| |d | date | |
| |9 | romanisation (of publisher) | |
| #646* | added congshu title (used only with #600, for partial reprints) | |
| |d | date | |
| |9 | romanisation | |
| Classification/subjects | ||
| #700 | siku classification number | |
| #704* | Harvard-Yenching classification number | |
| #785* | Bodleian Chinese thesaurus | |
| Classification authority | ||
| #7SC | siku classification number | |
| #7SD | siku classification text | |
| #7SN | siku classification notes | |
| #7Sc | dynasty number | |
| #7Sd | dynasty name | |
| #7Se | dynasty dates | |
| #7Sf | succeeding dynasty | |
| #7Sn | dynasty notes | |
| Shelfmarks | ||
| #800* | BOD (Bodleian Library) | |
| |c | copy note | |
| |g | specimen page filenames | |
| |h | periodical holdings | |
| |i | digitisation ID | |
| |p | provenance (old books) | |
| |s | source collection number (old books) | |
| |y | owners' seals | |
| #802* | EAL (Sackler Eastern Art Library) | |
| This and the following shelfmark fields (to #80R) may all take the above listed subfields. | ||
| #803* | RSL (Radcliffe Science Library) | |
| #806* | CCL (China Centre Library) | |
| #807* | RHO (Rhodes House Library) | |
| #809* | IND (Indian Institute Library) | |
| #80A* | PSL (Plant Sciences Library) | |
| #80B* | NEW (New College Library) | |
| #80C* | CCC (Corpus Christi College Library) | |
| #80H* | CHC (Christ Church Library) | |
| #80L* | ZEGI (Zoology, Alexander Library) | |
| #80N* | ASH (Ashmolean Museum) | |
| #80P* | WAD (Wadham College Library) | |
| #80R* | REG (Regent's Park College Angus Library) | |
| #80V* | Van der Loon collection running number | |
| |c | copy note | |
| |v | all parts originally in the Van der Loon collection | |
| |o | parts kept by Oxford | |
| |x | parts disposed of | |
| #899 | piece record | |
| |v | volume number or other content of piece | |
| |b | barcode | |
| Local fields | ||
| #900 | local coded information | |
| #905 | cataloguer's notes | |
| #909 | Serica tag | |
| #988 | supplier of current periodical | |