Required fields
024- UPC (required if applicable)
List only one UPC per field, omitting spaces and hyphens.
If the item has a UPC and ISBN, add a 020 tag for the ISBN.
In the example below, enter the UPC 012345678905.
028 - Manufacturer, publisher or distributor number (optional)
This is a formatted number used for sound recordings, printed music, and other music-related materials, and video recordings.
Enter as much information as possible to describe your item. In the absence of a UPC or manufacturer, publisher, or distributor number, even the Amazon standard number (ASIN) is helpful and can be entered in a 500 tag.
100 - Author (required if applicable)
Video recordings generally do not have a primary creator recorded in the 100 tag. Directors and actors are entered in a 700 tag with first indicator 1, following the rule of last name, first name.
Directors are considered the primary creators and should appear in the first 700 tag.
245 - Title statement (required)
250 - Edition statement (required if applicable)
Use this field to record console information for video games, the different editions of DVDs, Blu-Rays, and audiobooks. For example: Xbox, Wii, Anniversary edition, Director's cut edition, Widescreen, DVD/Blu-Ray combo pack and others.
The record can have multiple 250 edition statement tags.
264 - Publication information (required).
300 - Physical description (required)
Record the number of discs and duration.
If you do not know the number of discs, please enter just "discs."
For DVD/Blu-Ray combo packs, please describe it as:
Example : 300 __ 1 Blu-Ray disc (approximately __min.) :|bsound, color ;|c4 3/4 in. + |e 1 videodisc (DVD).
511 - Participant or performer (required if applicable)
Commonly used for audiobooks, Playaways, and CD MP3s, record information about participants, players, narrators, presenters and performers.
This is a freestyle writing tag, so you can add introductory terms such as "Read by", "Narrated by", "voices", "presenter", etc.
Example: 511 __ Narrated by Morgan Freeman.
590 - Format
Enter one of the controlled vocabulary terms according to the format: 590 Field Terminology
Every format, EXCEPT standard print books, must have a 590 tag.
500 - Notes tag (optional)
Use this tag to add information that does not "fit" into any other tag. Commonly used in combo packs or for materials that were part of a combo pack:
500 Part of a combo pack.
500 Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack
946 - Signature tag
The 946 is a required pre-cat tag. It contains your library three-letter code, your initials, and the date the pre-cat was created.
Enter it in this format:
Library 3-letter code/your initials/YYYYMMDD
Example:
BYS/AB/20240131
977 - PRE-CAT
The 977 PRE-CAT (in CAPS) is automatically added to pre-cat records. If your library uses Acquisitions, please make sure vendor records include the 977 tag.