This is covered by RDA 2.7:
> Date of production is a core element for resources issued in an
> unpublished form. Other sub-elements of production statements are
> optional.
For manuscript materials, I haven't been including $a or $b in 264 _0.
Michael A. Chopey
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University of Hawaii at Manoa Libraries
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On 4/20/2016 9:59 AM, Angela R Cope wrote:
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> I've been seeing some records for manuscript items (hand written,
> unpublished) with 264 _ 0 and $$a [Place of publication not
> identified] : $$b [publisher not identified]
>
>
> This is confusing to me. Is this right? AACR2 didn't have a subfield a
> or b because the item wasn't published.
>
>
> Can someone tell me what is the correct way to do a 264 for manuscript
> items?
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>
> Thanks for the help.
>
>
> Angie
>