Description of the Philatelic Materials

Abstract

Although philatelic materials, a part of non-book materials, have been widely used as pieces of collections, and academic studies usually concentrates on this characteristic, they are also information sources. For this reason, like traditional information sources, books, serials they should be catalogued according to standard rules with a library automation program and should be opened to access. In many countries, the standard cataloguing rules needed to be used for organizing and opening to access of philatelic materials, which are sent to the national library and the other kinds of libraries in the scope of legal deposit, should be Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules-II and MARC. In this study, which MARC fields among FDCs (First Day Cover) and SDC (Special Day Cover) should be taken into consideration in cataloguing of stamps will be explained through examples and proposals will be made. Postcards, which are catalogued according to stamps and FDC/SDCs on a level, are excepted from this study.

Keywords

• Pul
• Filatelik Materyal
• Kitapdışı Materyaller
• MARC
• Kitapdışı Materyalin Nitelenmesi