Introduction
The UNBIS Name Authority File contains the
authorized, or established, forms of names -
personal,
corporate, meeting and uniform title -
to be used as access points in UNBIS bibliographic
and speech records.
It
also contains tracing fields for variant and related headings and
notes, recording such information as the sources used to establish the
heading and series treatment.
This
UNBIS reference manual provides instructions for creating name
authority records. In general, it adheres to and guidelines but also reflects the practice
of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library which evolved in the pre-AACR2 and
pre-MARC environment to meet the challenging demand of describing UN
documentation.
This
manual
is supplemented by the , which cover in greater detail the
form of personal, corporate, conference and title headings found in the
UNBIS environment.
Note: In the instructions which
follow, field and subfield repeatability/non-repeatability is indicated
by «R» or «N¸é».
Maintained
by the Department of Public Information (DPI), Dag Hammarskjöld
Library. Comments as well as suggestions for further
additions/enhancements may be directed to the Dag Hammarskjöld Library.
© United Nations 2004-2009. All rights reserved.
Last
updated: 3 September 2009
|