COMARC/B Format for Bibliographic Data

PDFCOMARC/BJuly2007

305 Note pertaining to edition and bibliographic history**

This field contains a note relating to the edition of the item or to its bibliographic history.

Subfields & repeatability

FIELD/SUBFIELDREPEATABILITY
305Note pertaining to edition and bibliographic history**r
aText of notenr

Indicators

Indicator values are not defined.

SUBFIELDS

305a Text of note

A note on the edition and bibliographic history.

NOTES ON FIELD CONTENTS

This field contains notes on the edition of the item or on works related to the item when there is no corresponding 4XX linking entry field. Repeatable for each single note.

RELATED FIELDS

300GENERAL NOTE
A field 300 may be used as an alternative to field 305.
311NOTE PERTAINING TO LINKING FIELD
Field is used for bibliographic history notes related to linking fields.
4XXLINKING ENTRY BLOCK
Certain bibliographic history notes may be generated from fields 4XX.

EXAMPLES

  1. 305⊔⊔aV. 2. 2nd ed.
    (The record relates to a monograph in 3 volumes. Volume 2 alone of the item is in its second edition.)
  2. 305⊔⊔aPrevious ed.: 1978
    (The item was published in 1980. It was previously published in 1978 under the same title.)
  3. 305⊔⊔aOriginally published: London : Constable, 1957
  4. 305⊔⊔a"A tentative draft for the experimental use, not yet approved by the Committee on Administrative Practice" - Pref.
    (A note is taken from the item itself; the note is entered in quotation marks and the source is noted.)
  5. 305⊔⊔a"Five of the stories were published in the compiler's "T'ai-wan pen-ti tso-chia tuan-p'ien hsiao-shuo hsun" published in 1972" - CIP data
    (Since the note is taken from CIP data in the item, the source is acknowledged.)
  6. *

    305⊔⊔aPosnela filmska družba: Columbia pictures
    (A note in the record for a videocassette issued in Slovenia.)