scope:

Display Requirements

This standard specifies display requirements for holdings statements for bibliographic items to promote consistency in the communication and exchange of holdings information. It applies to holdings statements for bibliographic items in any physical or electronic medium. It also applies to both manual and automated means of recording holdings.

Data Elements

This standard identifies and defines the data elements for holdings statements of bibliographic items appropriate for listings of holdings in one or more libraries or institutions. It specifies which data areas and data elements must be included in the holdings statement. It does not prescribe the sequence in which data areas are to be displayed in a holdings statement. It specifies the content, sequence, and format of data elements within data areas.

This standard is independent of cataloging rule systems. The standard specifies neither how the data elements should be represented in a machine-readable data format, nor the medium(s) employed for storage, display, or transfer of the holdings statements.

Holdings Statement Linkage

This standard requires that the holdings statement be linked to an identification of the bibliographic item to which the statement pertains; however, the method of identifying the bibliographic item is excluded from the standard.