- All Implemented Interfaces:
- java.io.Serializable, java.lang.Comparable<BibliographicLevel>
public enum BibliographicLevel
extends java.lang.Enum<BibliographicLevel>
Bibliographic level
One-character alphabetic code indicating the bibliographic level of the record.
a - Monographic component part
Monographic bibliographic unit that is physically attached to or contained in another unit
such that the retrieval of the component part is dependent on the identification and location
of the host item or container. Contains fields that describe the component part and data that
identify the host, field 773 (Host Item Entry).
Examples of monographic component parts with corresponding host items include an article in a
single issue of a periodical, a chapter in a book, a band on a phonodisc, and a map on a single
sheet that contains several maps.
b - Serial component part
Serial bibliographic unit that is physically attached to or contained in another unit such
that the retrieval of the component part is dependent on the identification and location
of the host item or container. Contains fields that describe the component part and data that
identify the host, field 773 (Host Item Entry).
Example of a serial component part with corresponding host item is a regularly appearing column
or feature in a periodical.
c - Collection
Made-up multipart group of items that were not originally published, distributed, or produced
together. The record describes units defined by common provenance or administrative convenience
for which the record is intended as the most comprehensive in the system.
d - Subunit
Part of collection, especially an archival unit described collectively elsewhere in the system.
Contains fields that describe the subunit and data that identify the host item.
Subunits may be items, folders, boxes, archival series, subgroups, or subcollections.
i - Integrating resource
Bibliographic resource that is added to or changed by means of updates that do not remain
discrete and are integrated into the whole. Examples include updating loose-leafs and
updating Web sites.
Integrating resources may be finite or continuing.
m - Monograph/Item
Item either complete in one part (e.g., a single monograph, a single map, a single manuscript,
etc.) or intended to be completed, in a finite number of separate parts (e.g., a multivolume
monograph, a sound recording with multiple tracks, etc.).
s - Serial
Bibliographic item issued in successive parts bearing numerical or chronological designations
and intended to be continued indefinitely. Includes periodicals; newspapers; annuals (reports,
yearbooks, etc.); the journals, memoirs, proceedings, transactions, etc., of societies; and
numbered monographic series, etc.