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Post author By zemkat
Post date December 3, 2015
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The Tokyo trial : recollections and perspectives from China / editor, Center for the Tokyo Studies of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. (OCLC #931081068)

RDA 2.8.6.6 on what to do when the Date of Publication is not identified says to supply the date or approximate date of publication; there is no provision for recording a phrase like “[date of publication no identified]” or similar.

This volume had no date for publication, copyright, distribution, manufacture, and neither publisher mentions the book on the web site, so we looked to the content to determine an approximate date.

One of the chapters includes a brief biography of Ni Zhengyu including the fact that he passed away in 2003. This was the latest date we found, so we recorded it as:

[not before 2003]

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Post author By zemkat
Post date July 13, 2015
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East Austin stories [videorecording]. (OCLC #515199419)

In RDA, we can supply the date of publication from any available source. I could not find a date of publication in any of the preferred sources (same source as title proper, or anywhere else in the resource) so emailed the contact person listed on the publisher’s website. He quickly wrote back and supplied me with the information and was delighted to hear that we were adding the video to our collection.

As the date of publication was supplied from a source outside of the resource, I indicated that with square brackets:

264 _1 ǂa [Austin, Texas] : ǂb EastAustinStories.org, ǂc [2005]

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