[Heb-NACO] Date Status (DtSt) and Dates in the fixed field

[Shinohara, Jasmin]

Hi, Caroline, thank you for asking!

There may be other sources of documentation, but the first one I could find is found in Bib Formats and Standards (BFAS), under DtSt, Type of Date/Publication Status<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/fixedfield/dtst.html__;!!KGKeukY!3vnd0qXxGrzMvb6uZynJG4xKRcOwzuIT6hRsEJeb3mPfsvXkMjoQHvcy-2lD6RPQE__Sl6TvgH-6vKE1P10E2jrIKhEBGINjSOQ$ >. There, included as the last of the examples for the code s, is the example
DtSt

s
Dates


1983,[blank character][blank character][blank character][blank character]
264
_
1
Yerushalayim : ǂb E. Fisher, ǂc 744 [1983 or 1984]
[Non-Gregorian dates with no single Gregorian equivalent]

Thus, records with DtSt code q and the two years in Date 1 and Date 2 are incorrectly coded.

I’ll let you know if I find other documentation for this practice. In the meantime, hope this helps.

Kol tuv, Jasmin

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Subject: [Heb-NACO] Date Status (DtSt) and Dates in the fixed field

All, This may sound like a newbie question but I have never seen an official policy on coding the date status for materials that only have a Hebrew date. It’s clear in RDA and the PS’s how to transcribe the date in the 264. Example
All,

This may sound like a newbie question but I have never seen an official policy on coding the date status for materials that only have a Hebrew date.  It’s clear in RDA and the PS’s how to transcribe the date in the 264.   Example from the book I’m cataloging:

673 [1912 or 1913]

I have seen this coded in the fixed field as:

DtSt: s      Dates 1912 ,

DtSt: q      Dates 1912 ,   1913

Is there an official policy on MARC coding for these fixed fields?  I’ve done a little hunting on Heb-NACO and couldn’t find any official guidance.

Thanks.

Caroline

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