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Database Fields in LACBD 

The following fields are currently used in the LACBD. Some fields are hyperlinked.

Author

The following data elements are searchable in the Author field:

Author indicates the individual responsible for creating the original document. Photographers and Illustrators are included in this field, with "Photographer" or "Illustrator" following the name. 

Corporate Author indicates the organization responsible for the creation of the original document. 

Editor refers to the individual responsible for editing the original document. Compilers are included in this field, with the "compiler" following the name. 

Series editor refers to the individual responsible for editing a book series. 

Translators refers to the individual responsible for translation of a document. 

Cartographer refers to the individual responsible for the creation of a map, if identified. 


Book Source
The book source field provides the bibliographic information about the book in which a chapter or other excerpt is located.

Date

The date refers to the year in which an original document was published. The date of a journal or magazine citation will include the month with the year of publication. Day of month will be included if given. 

This field identifies revisions, updates, and numeric editions of a book or map. Numeric editions are in the format 2nd, 3rd, etc. 

Issue
The issue number for magazine or journal article citation. 

Legacy ID
The original source identification number for each legacy citation is included with a bibliographic record. The following fields are included: 

Nunis indicates the citation number is from the Nunis bibliography. 

Rudd indicates the citation number is from the Rudd bibliography.


Place of Publication
Place of publication indicates the city where a document is published. This field appears in book, report, map, theses and conference records, but not in journal records. 

Publisher

The publisher field contains the name of the publisher. This field appears in book, report, map, theses and conference records, but not in journal records. 

Mape Scale

This refers to scale measurements for maps, when available. 

Notes

The notes field contains additional information that follows the bibliographic citation, for example, "Includes bibliography. Illustrations: Maps." 

Pages

Pagination indicates the number of pages in a book that is cited, for example "456 pp OR refers to the page range for cited journal articles, for example, "1442-1449". 

Reference Type

This field identifies the general type of document the record represents. The complex search provides a pull down menu allowing you to limit your search to a reference type, such as journal article. The following reference types included in the bibliographic database: 
book
book section
edited book 
journal article 
thesis 
map
conference
report 

Series
The series field identifies the title of a series. 

Thesis
The thesis type refers to the type of thesis as listed in the original citation, for example, "Project (M.A.)"

Title

The following data elements are searchable in the title field: 

Journal Article refers to the title of an article in a journal. 

Journal Article refers to the title of an article in a journal. 

Journal Title field lists the title of a journal for a journal article citation. 

Journal Article refers to the title of an article in a journal. 

Series title provides the title of a monographic series. 

Title provides the title of the document. For chapters, the title refers to the name of the chapter, not the name of the book. 


Volume

Volume number refers to the volume number for a magazine or journal citation or to the volume number of a book published in multiple volumes. 

Number of volumes refers to the number of volumes in a set, for example, "2 vols." 

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