====== Dates (RDA 2.7.6, 2.8.6, 2.9.6, 2.10.6, 2.11) ======


<color #87ceeb>**CORE ELEMENT**</color>

**Publication date**: “A date associated with the publication, release, or issuing of a resource” – RDA 2.8.6.1.\\

**Copyright date**: “A date associated with a claim of protection under copyright or a similar regime. Copyright dates include phonogram dates, that is, dates associated with claims of protection for audio recordings” – RDA 2.11.1.1

**Production date**: “A date associated with the inscription, fabrication, construction, etc., of a resource in an unpublished form”-- RDA 2.7.6.1.\\

**Distribution date**: “A date associated with the distribution of a resource in a published form” – RDA 2.9.6.1.\\

**Manufacture date**: ”A date associated with the printing, duplicating, casting, etc., of a resource in a published form” -- RDA 2.10.6.1.\\

Code all dates in MARC field 264, ǂc\\
Code OCLC fixed fields DtSt (MARC 008/06) using appropriate codes and Dates (MARC 008/07-14)

===== Publication and Copyright Dates (RDA 2.8.6) =====


**On resource**:

<wrap indent>A book of travelers’ tales</wrap>\\
<wrap indent>This Picador edition published in 1986 by Pan Books Ltd in Cavaye Place, London. </wrap>\\

**Code as**:

<wrap indent>264 _1 London : ǂb Pan Books Ltd, ǂc 1986. </wrap>\\
<wrap indent>OCLC Fixed Field   DtSt: s Dates: 1986</wrap>\\

**Publication Date inferred from a copyright date**: (RDA 2.8.6.6, LC-PCC PS)

If an item has a copyright date but lacks a publication date, “[s]upply a date of publication that corresponds to the copyright date, in square brackets” -- RDA 2.8.6.6, LC-PCC PS.

**PINES local practice**: if a publication date is inferred from a copyright date, place the date in brackets for 264 _1 and record the copyright date in 264_4:

<wrap indent>264 _1 New York : ǂb New Directions, ǂc [2013] </wrap>\\
<wrap indent>264 _4 ǂc ©2013</wrap>\\

<note> Notice that the 264 _4 copyright date field does not end with a period</note>

OCLC Fixed Field  DtSt: s  Dates: 2013


**Publication Date that Differs from Copyright Date** (RDA 2.8.6.6)

**On resource**:

<WRAP INDENT CENTERALIGN>THE GLASS MENAGERIE</WRAP>
<WRAP INDENT CENTERALIGN>by Tennessee Williams</WRAP>
<WRAP INDENT CENTERALIGN>New York</WRAP>
<WRAP INDENT CENTERALIGN>New Directions</WRAP>
<WRAP INDENT CENTERALIGN>2011</WRAP>
---------------------------------
<WRAP INDENT CENTERALIGN>©1989</WRAP>\\

**Code as**:\\

<wrap indent>264 _1 New York : ǂb New Directions, ǂc 2011. </wrap>\\
<wrap indent>264 _4 ǂc ©1989</wrap>\\

<wrap indent>OCLC Fixed Field  DtSt: t Dates: 2011, 1989. </wrap>\\


===== Publication Date Not Identified in a Single-Part Manifestation (RDA 2.8.6.6, LC-PCC PS 2.) =====



If the copyright date is the year following the year in which the publication is received, supply a date of publication that corresponds to the copyright date.

**Example**:

<wrap indent>Date of publication not given. </wrap>\\
<wrap indent>Title page verso ©2009</wrap>\\
<wrap indent>Item received in 2008</wrap>\\

**Code as**:

<wrap indent>264 _1 New York : ǂb Lifetime Library, ǂc [2009] </wrap>\\
<wrap indent>264 _4 ǂc ©2009</wrap>\\
<wrap indent>OCLC Fixed Field    DtSt: t  Dates: 2009, 2009</wrap>\\

<note important>What is printed on the manifestation is more important than information from another source.</note>


Publication Dates: Date of Related Manifestations (RDA 27.1)

**Title page on Resource**:

<WRAP INDENT CENTERALIGN>The COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO</WRAP>
<WRAP INDENT CENTERALIGN>Alexandre Dumas</WRAP>
 <WRAP INDENT CENTERALIGN>Bantam books</WRAP>

<WRAP INDENT CENTERALIGN>Toronto        New York</WRAP>

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**Verso of Title Page**:

<wrap indent>First Bantam edition</wrap>\\
<wrap indent>1990</wrap>\\
<wrap indent>Published by Bantam Books</wrap>\\
<wrap indent>Originally published by MJ Ivers in US, 1892. </wrap>\\


**Code as**:

<wrap indent>245 _4 The Count of Monte Cristo / ǂc Alexandre Dumas. </wrap>\\
<wrap indent>240 10 Comte de Monte-Cristo. ǂl English</wrap>\\
<wrap indent>250     First Bantam edition. </wrap>\\
<wrap indent>264 _1 Toronto ; ǂa New York : ǂb Bantam Books, ǂc 1990. </wrap>\\
<wrap indent>500      Originally published by MJ Ivers in US, 1892. </wrap>\\

<wrap indent>OCLC Fixed Field      DtSt r  Dates: 1990, 1892. </wrap>\\


===== Multipart Monographs (RDA 2.7.6.5) =====


“If the first issue, part, or iteration of a multipart monograph … is available, record a date of production of that issue, part, or iteration, followed by a hyphen.”

**Example**:

<wrap indent>264 _1 Toronto ; ǂa New York : ǂb Bantam Books, ǂc 1990-</wrap>\\
<wrap indent>300  volume</wrap>\\
<WRAP INDENT JUSTIFY>**OCLC Fixed Field coding for open dates**: Record the date of the first part/volume and leave the date open using 9999. </WRAP>
<wrap indent>DtSt: m  Dates: 1990,9999</wrap>\\


<wrap indent>After the last volume arrives, close the date with the date on the last copy. </wrap>\\

<wrap indent>264 _1 Toronto ; ǂa New York : ǂb Bantam Books, ǂc 1990-1998.</wrap>\\
<wrap indent>300   6 volume</wrap>\\
<wrap indent>DtSt m  Dates: 1990, 1998. </wrap>\\

===== Supplied Dates (RDA 1.9.2) =====


If a date does not appear or is unclear on the source of information, supply an approximate date of publication. Indicate the source if taken from somewhere other than the resource.\\

Actual known record as: [2003]\\
Either one of two consecutive years record as: [1971 or 1972]\\
Probable year record as: [2000?]\\
Probable range of years record as: [between 1970 and 1979?]\\
Earliest possible date know record as: [not before August, 2011]\\
Latest possible date known record as: [not after 1865]\\

**Examples of coding**:

<wrap indent>264 _1 New York : ǂb Lifetime Library, ǂc [1960?] </wrap>\\
<wrap indent>DtSt: s Dates: 1960</wrap>\\

<wrap indent>264 _1 New York : ǂb Lifetime Library, ǂc [between 1970 and 1979] </wrap>\\
<wrap indent>DtSt: s Dates: 197u</wrap>\\

<wrap indent>264 _1 New York : ǂb Lifetime Library, ǂc [between 1800-1899] </wrap>\\
<wrap indent> DtSt: s Dates: 18uu</wrap>\\


**Example wording on resource**:

<wrap indent>"O.P. Mims, written on a dark, dreary, snowy day--December 2, 1974".</wrap>\\


**Code as**:

<wrap indent>264 _0 ǂc [not before December 1974] </wrap>\\
<wrap indent>DtSt: s Dates: 1974</wrap>\\

===== Fictitious or incorrect dates (RDA 2.8.6.3) =====

“If the date as it appears in the resource is known to be fictitious or incorrect, make a note giving the actual date” – RDA 2.8.6.3.

**Examples**:

<wrap indent>264 _1 Paris : ǂb Impr. Vincent, ǂc 1798. </wrap>\\
<wrap indent>500  Actually published in Brussels by Morens in 1883.</wrap>\\

Date of Publication Not Identified (RDA 2.8.6.6)

Follow LC-PCC PS guidelines and try to supply a probable date. If a date can be supplied, indicate if from a different source. If no date can be supplied, then record as: [date of publication not identified].

264 _1 Atlanta, Ga. : ǂb [publisher not identified], ǂc [date of publication not identified]

===== Manufacture Date (RDA 2.10.6) =====


Date of manufacture (printing) in place of publication\\

“If an item lacking a publication date contains a copyright date and a date of manufacture and the year is the same for both, supply a date of publication that corresponds to that date, in square brackets, if it seems reasonable to assume that date is a likely publication date” -- RDA 2.8.6.6 LC-PCC PS)

**On Resource**:

<WRAP INDENT CENTERALIGN>… Or you Can Let Him Go</WRAP>
<WRAP INDENT CENTERALIGN>Kathryn Seidick</WRAP>
<WRAP INDENT CENTERALIGN>Bantam</WRAP>
<WRAP INDENT CENTERALIGN>Toronto  New York</WRAP>
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<WRAP INDENT CENTERALIGN>First Bantam printing: April 1987</WRAP>

**Code as**:

<wrap indent>264 1 Toronto [Ont.] : ǂa New York : ǂb Bantam, ǂc [1987] </wrap>\\

<wrap indent>DtSt: s  Dates: 1987</wrap>\\


**Date of publication not given**

**Example**:

<wrap indent>t.p. verso ©1980, 1980 printing</wrap>\\


If it is determined the printing company on a resource also publishes, you may treat it as a publisher.

**Examples**:
<wrap indent>264 _ 1 : ǂb XX Printing, LLC, ǂc [2013] </wrap>\\
<wrap indent>or; </wrap>\\
<wrap indent>264 _ 1 : ǂb [publisher not identified], ǂc [2013] </wrap>\\
<wrap indent>264 _ 3 : ǂb Dire Printing Sh. Co. </wrap>\\
<wrap indent>or; </wrap>\\

264 _ 3 : ǂb Dire Printing Sh. Co., ǂc September 2013. </wrap>\\

For all above examples:DtSt: s Dates: 2013

==== Manufacture date with Publication Date: (RDA 2.17.13) ====

**On Resource**:

<WRAP INDENT CENTERALIGN>MOCCASIN TRAIL</WRAP>
<WRAP INDENT CENTERALIGN>Eloise Jarvis McGraw</WRAP>
<WRAP INDENT CENTERALIGN>New York</WRAP>
<WRAP INDENT CENTERALIGN>Junior Literary Guild</WRAP>
<WRAP INDENT CENTERALIGN>Coward-McCann</WRAP>
<WRAP INDENT CENTERALIGN>1952</WRAP>
--------------------------------
<WRAP INDENT CENTERALIGN>28th printing 1987</WRAP>

**Code as**:\\
<wrap indent>264 _1 New York : ǂb Junior Literary Guild : ǂb Coward-McCann, ǂc 1952. </wrap>\\
<wrap indent>500    Description based on 28th printing, 1987. </wrap>\\
<wrap indent>DtSt: s Dates: 1952</wrap>\\