| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Bibliographic item | Art | In AACR2, a document or set of documents in any physical format (print or nonprint), given a single bibliographic description in library cataloging based on the fact of having been published, issued, released, or otherwise treated as a single entity. As defined in FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records), a single concrete exemplar of a manifestation of an expression of an intellectual or artistic work, in most cases a single physical object, such as a copy of an edition of a single-volume monograph. All the items constituting a manifestation normally contain the same intellectual/artistic content and are identical in physical form, but variations can occur subsequent to production, as in the case of a monograph rebound by a library. In some cases an item consists of more than one physical object, for example, a videorecording released on more than one cassette or a multivolume set of reference books. See also: bibliographic record. (references) | |
| Bibliographic item | Publishing & Graphic Arts | Set of elements forming the bibliographic description and the heading (s) for a document for inclusion in a catalogue or in a bibliography. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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