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TECHNICAL NOTICE (February 18, 2009)

Additions to the MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions

Network Development and MARC Standards Office
Library of Congress

The codes listed below have been recently approved for use in MARC 21 records. The codes will be added to MARC Code List for Relators. They were submitted by the Arizona State University Libraries, prompted by current work with resource descriptions in the areas of stage performance, archeology, and data and grant administration.

The codes should not be used in exchange records until after April 18, 2009. This 60-day waiting period is required to provide MARC 21 implementers time to include newly defined codes in any validation tables they may apply to the MARC fields where the codes are used.

MARC Relator Codes/Terms

Relator codes are for use in subfield $4 in name access fields. Relator terms are for use in subfield $e in name access fields.

• Additions:
  • anl - Analyst - Use for a person or organization that reviews, examines and interprets data or information in a specific area. [use after April 18, 2009]
  • ard - Artistic director - Use for a person responsible for controlling the development of the artistic style of an entire production, including the choice of works to be presented and selection of senior production staff. [use after April 18, 2009]
  • dtc - Data contributor - Use for a person or organization that submits data for inclusion in a database or other collection of data. [use after April 18, 2009]
  • dtm - Data manager - Use for a person or organization responsible for managing databases or other data sources. [use after April 18, 2009]
  • elg - Electrician - Use for a person responsible for setting up a lighting rig and focusing the lights for a production, and running the lighting at a performance. [use after April 18, 2009]
  • fld - Field director - Use for a person or organization that manages or supervises the work done to collect raw data or do research in an actual setting or environment (typically applies to the natural and social sciences). [use after April 18, 2009]
  • gis - Geographic information specialist - Use for a person responsible for geographic information system (GIS) development and integration with global positioning system data.. [use after April 18, 2009]
  • lbr - Laboratory - Use for an institution that provides scientific analyses of material samples. [use after April 18, 2009]
  • ldr - Laboratory director - Use for a person or organization that manages or supervises work done in a controlled setting or environment. [use after April 18, 2009]
  • led - Lead - Use to indicate that a person or organization takes primary responsibility for a particular activity or endeavor. Use with another relator term or code to show the greater importance this person or organization has regarding that particular role. If more than one relator is assigned to a heading, use the Lead relator only if it applies to all the relators. [use after April 18, 2009]
  • msd - Musical director - Use for a person responsible for basic music decisions about a production, including coordinating the work of the composer, the sound editor, and sound mixers, selecting musicians, and organizing and/or conducting sound for rehearsals and performances. [use after April 18, 2009]
  • pma - Permitting agency - Use for an authority (usually a government agency) that issues permits under which work is accomplished. [use after April 18, 2009]
  • pmn - Production manager - Use for a person responsible for all technical and business matters in a production. [use after April 18, 2009]
  • pdr - Project director - Use for a person or organization with primary responsibility for all essential aspects of a project, or that manages a very large project that demands senior level responsibility, or that has overall responsibility for managing projects, or provides overall direction to a project manager. [use after April 18, 2009]
  • rps - Repository - Use for an agency that hosts data or material culture objects and provides services to promote long term, consistent and shared use of those data or objects. [use after April 18, 2009]
  • sds - Sound designer - Use for a person who produces and reproduces the sound score (both live and recorded), the installation of microphones, the setting of sound levels, and the coordination of sources of sound for a production. [use after April 18, 2009]
  • sht - Supporting host - Use for a person or organization that supports (by allocating facilities, staff, or other resources) a project, program, meeting, event, data objects, material culture objects, or other entities capable of support. [use after April 18, 2009]
  • stm - Stage manager - Use for a person who is in charge of everything that occurs on a performance stage, and who acts as chief of all crews and assistant to a director during rehearsals. [use after April 18, 2009]
  • tcd - Technical director - Use for a person who is ultimately in charge of scenery, props, lights and sound for a production. [use after April 18, 2009]

The Library of Congress, Network Development and MARC Standards Office provides information about existing and newly assigned MARC codes on its Web site (www.loc.gov/marc/) as well as notices such as these to subscribers to its MARC listserv. (marc@loc.gov).

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