TY  - JOUR
AB  - LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY LIBRARY In order to fulfil the original aims of MINICS to provide a record structure hospitable to data describing all types of media — monographs, series, serials, etc. — the data fields are being redefined and a new feature incorporated to encode the significance of the contents of fields. The three levels of record — serial/series, monograph or individual item, and analytical are being retained and tags are still two digits. The MINICS record, based on MARC, is made up of a fixed length leader, a variable length directory and variable length data fields. The data fields fall into four categories: control elements, such as accession number, ISSN, ISBN, physical medium code; cataloguing data; linking elements, such as former and later title; and stock maintenance elements, such as frequency of publication, supplier, binding details. A range of field indicators has been defined which, when applied after a tag, show the significance of the data, e.g. whether a main or added heading is required, or distinguish data of a subsidiary nature. These indicators also act as dividers between repeated uses of a field.
VL  - 2
IS  - 3
SN  - 0305-5728
DO  - 10.1108/eb040036
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb040036
AU  - Overton C.M.
PY  - 1972
Y1  - 1972/01/01
TI  - Vine Volume 2 Issue 3 1972
T2  - VINE
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 1
EP  - 11
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -