Used
by Dag Hammarskjöld Library to record local information of interest to
their staff.
Also used by other libraries participating in UNBIS to record
information that may be of interest to staff in all libraries.
UNOG, ECLAC and UNOV libraries use tag 597 to record
information that is only of interest to their staff.
Examples:
596
$a Reissued for technical reasons.
[Document is reissued in all
languages with same document symbol.
If a new job no. is present, replace the earlier job number with the
new one.
This note may
be of interest to staff of all libraries participating in UNBIS]
[Prior to
Mar. 2009, the new job no. was added in new 029ab field preceding the
earlier job no.]
596
$a Reissued in French for
technical reasons.
596 $a Reissued in French, Russian
and Spanish for technical reasons.
[If only certain language versions of a
document are reissued for technical reasons, record tag 596 note as shown in
the two examples above]
596
$a Imprint in French.
[Language of the imprint recorded
in field 260 differs from language recorded in 008/35-37. This note may
be of interest to staff of all libraries participating in UNBIS]
596
$a Imprint partially in English (date).
[In this example, the date appears
in English on the
document, while the place and publisher appear in the language recorded
in 008/35-37]
596
$a No job no.
[Notes about job numbers on UN
documents and publications may be of interest to staff of all
libraries. Other examples: "Job no. not printed"; "No job no. on
English ed."; "Job no. only on Russian ed.", etc.]
596
$a Individual issues not indexed.
596
$a Individual issues not indexed from
issue no. 92.
[Serials
records that are not indexed or are no longer indexed at the level of
individual issues. This note may be of interest to staff of all
libraries participating in UNBIS so it is recorded by all libraries in
tag 596]
596 $a Requires Agdocno and Agitem 4a.
[Bib. record is entered before
Agenda Authority records have been created; note will be deleted by DHL
when Agenda Authority is created. This note is of interest to DHL
staff; UNOG Library records this note in tag 597]
596 $a Retrospective conversion (mm/yy).
[Prior to Aug. 2005, the "Retrospective conversion (mm/yy)" note was recorded in field 594]
But:
597
1_ $a CHECK INTERNET
[a reminder to UNOG staff that item may later be available on Internet
and should be checked so that 856 URL link can be added; local
note will then be deleted]
Prior to August/September 2003, notes
about peculiarities in UN document symbols (presence or location on
documents, discrepancies, etc.) were recorded in tag 596.
The current UNBIS policy is to record such information in tag 500
General Note.
Examples:
500
$a Document symbol not printed.
500 $a Document
symbol from back cover.
500 $a
Erroneous document symbol on p. 2-13: TRANS/WP.30/2003/11.
500 $a
Erroneous document symbol on French ed.: E/CN.4/2005/SR.18.
When an
error in a document symbol is corrected by a corrigendum, the
corrigendum note is recorded in tag 515 Numbering
Peculiarities Note:
515
$a Corrects document symbol to:
[E/ECE/]MP.EIA/2001/17.
515 $a Document
symbol corrected by: [E/ECE/]ENVWA/2/Corr.1.
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