International Standard Book Number

Unique number assigned to a particular edition or variation of a published work

Table of Contents

1. Source
2. Guidelines
3. See Also

Source

• Publishers (using numbers purchased from affiliates of the International ISBN Agency)

Guidelines

• The International Standard Book Number is automatically populated into records when importing MARC records via MARC 020$a
• It is not necessary to add a International Standard Book Number to a record manually

See Also

• MARC 020$a for documentation of the corresponding MARC tag and subfield
• What is an ISBN? for details about the structure of an International Standard Book Number