ISBD(NBM) - IFLA

1.2 General material designation (optional)
1.2.1 The purpose of the general material designation is to indicate, in general terms and at an
early point in the description, the class of material to which the item belongs. The general material
designation is given immediately after the title proper. It is given in the language and script chosen by the
bibliographic agency.
1.2.2 Inclusion of the general material designation is especially useful for non-book materials
included in integrated catalogues or bibliographies. A list of the recommended English language
designations appears in Appendix C.
1.2.3 When the item comprises a primary component with a subsidiary component(s) not of the
same general material category (e.g. a filmstrip accompanied by a descriptive leaflet, a sound disc
accompanied by a leaflet and a wallchart), the general material designation refers only to the primary
component.
e.g.
Examining documents [Visual projection]
Note: Slides with accompanying sound, teacher's guides, workbooks and quiz
questions
1.2.4 When the item comprises components belonging to two or more general material
categories, no one of which is predominant (e.g. a collection of teaching materials including a sound
recording, filmstrips and wallcharts), the general material designation "Multi-media" or "Kit" (or equivalent)
is used as appropriate (see definitions in Appendix C).
1.2.5 Item without a title proper
1.2.5.1 When an item comprises two or more works without a title proper (see 1.1.2.10), the
general material designation is given after the first title.
e.g.
La mer [Sound recording] ; Khamma ; Rhapsody for clarinet and orchestra / Claude
Debussy
A Shopshire lad [Sound recording] ; The banks of green willow ; Two English idylls /
George Butterworth. Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge, op. 10 / Benjamin Britten ;
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields ; directed by Neville Marriner
1.2.5.2 When an item having no collective title proper comprises two interdependent components
belonging to distinct material categories, the appropriate general material designation is given after each
title.
e.g.
Life in the time of Charles Dickens (Visual projection] / editor, Albert Ammerman.
The time, the life, the works of Charles Dickens, and excerpts from Dickens on
America [Sound recording] / read by Ian Brett and Peter Howell
1.3 Parallel titles
1.3.1 When on the prescribed source of information there are titles in more than one language
and/or script, the titles not chosen as title proper (see 1.1.3) are transcribed as parallel title(s).
e.g.
Herfra til evigheden [Motion picture] = From here to eternity
1.3.2 A parallel title, as an equivalent of the title proper, can take the same various forms (see
1.1.2).
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