Notes for Textbooks and Other Publications for Instructional Purposes

Textbooks

In both Soviet era and post-Soviet Russian publications, the information on the title page of a textbook often states that the item has been approved or recommended by an authoritative government body as a textbook for a field of study.

Under AACR2, this information was usually recorded with the following note: Authorized for instructional purposes.

Example (in MARC format):

500 Authorized for instructional purposes.

RDA puts greater emphasis on exact transcription of data that appears on the source of information, especially the preferred source of information, such as the title page. Thus, a statement on the title page about a textbook being approved by a government body should be transcribed as is in a quoted note.

Example (in MARC format):

The statement in the title page given above is transcribed as:

500 "Dopushcheno Gosudarstvennym komitetom SSSR po narodnomu obrazovanii︠u︡ v kachestve uchebnika dli︠a︡ studentov vysshikh uchebnykh zavedeniĭ, obuchai︠u︡shchikhsi︠a︡ po spet︠s︡ialʹnosti "Pravovedenie"."

Optionally, a cataloger may omit this information and not transcribe at all. According to the BIBCO Standard Record requirements, only those notes that support identification of an item need be included. Criteria may vary from one item to another.

Because the textbook statements are generally not useful for identification, they can be left out.

Учебные пособия (Study aids)

The words учебное пособие (study aid) often appear on the title page, indicating the nature of the resource. These books do not have a status of the official textbooks approved by a government body, and should be recorded as a subtitle.

Example (in MARC format):

245 10 Leksikologii︠a︡ russkogo i︠a︡zyka : ǂb prakticheskie zadanii︠a︡ i slovarnye materialy : uchebnoe posobie / ǂc E.I︠U︡. Bulygina, T.A. Tripolʹskai︠a︡.