How are the publications catalogued?
The cataloguing records appear in MARC 21 format. The cataloguing information in the records has been tailored to suit the needs of the Legislative Library. The Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition, are used as a guide but are not strictly adhered to. Subject headings are established using the Library of Congress subject headings and the Canadian subject headings lists. The Legislative Library uses one MARC record for both the print and electronic versions of the same publication. Currently, the British Columbia Government Publications Checklist contains a small percentage of bibliographic records for electronic versions of publications. As a result, the exported MARC records may not include a 245 $h [electronic resource] field identifying the general material designation. The MARC records include local 9xx fields and a 500 field identifying the Legislative Library as the creator of the record. See Question 11. 14. As our Library has modified the Legislative Library’s origi
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