MARC: News and Announcements (May 10, 2006)
MARC Code List for Geographic Areas
2006 Edition
Network Development and MARC Standards Office
Library of Congress
The 2006 edition of the MARC Code List for Geographic Areas (also online
at: www.loc.gov/marc/geoareas/gacshome.html)
is
now available from the Library of Congress. This revision of the 2002 edition
contains
a list of up-to-date geographic areas and their associated one-to seven-character
codes used in MARC records. The list includes separate codes for countries,
first order political divisions of some countries, regions, and geographic features.
References from variant forms are also included. Changes and additions since
the previous edition include codes for Central Australia, Eastern Australia,
Northern Australia and the Coral Sea Islands.
The list includes all valid codes and code assignments as of March 2006
and supersedes the 2002 edition of the MARC Code List for Geographic Areas.
There are 4 newly assigned codes in this new publication.
MARC Code List for Geographic Areas (ISBN 0-8444-1148-5) is available
for $20 (North America) and $22 (outside North America) from:
Library of Congress
Cataloging Distribution Service
Customer Services Section
Washington, DC 20541-4912
www.loc.gov/cds/
TEL: 1-202-707-6100
FAX: 1-202-707-1334
E-MAIL: cdsinfo@loc.gov
MARC 21 information, including future updates to this edition of the geographic
areas list, may be found at: www.loc.gov/marc/.
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