UNIMARC Manual – Holdings Format

The purposes of the UNIMARC Holdings Format are to facilitate the reporting of holdings data at national or international level and promote consistency in the communication of holdings information and location of an item.The scope of the UNIMARC Holdings Format is to specify, in separate holdings records linked to the bibliographic records, the content designators (tags, indicators and subfields codes) to be assigned to holdings and to specify the logical and physical format of the records. It provides information related to the unique characteristics of continuing and non-continuing resources items, specifically, the owner entity, physical location, availability.