UKMARC Manual

The British Library no longer supports or develops the UKMARC format. However, we have made available the full UKMARC manual as a series of downloadable PDFs in order to assist those libraries still using UKMARC.

Please note that the UKMARC manual is no longer updated.

• Introduction and development (PDF format 34KB)
• Structure and guide (PDF format 55KB)
• Fields 001 - 099 (PDF format 462KB)
• Fields 100 - 299 (PDF format 325KB)
• Fields 300 - 490 (PDF format 200KB)
• Fields 500 - 586 (PDF format 146KB)
• Fields 600 - 699 (PDF format 176KB)
• Fields 700 - 799 (PDF format 377KB)
• Fields 800 - 945 (PDF format 217KB)
• Appendix A: Country Codes (PDF format 247KB)
• Appendix B: Language Codes (PDF format 1.24MB)
• Appendix C: Geographic Area Codes (PDF format 607KB)
• Appendix D: Cartographic Materials Codes (PDF format 762KB)
• Appendix E: Physical Description Codes (PDF format 133KB)
• Appendix F: Punctuation (PDF format 382KB)
• Glossary (PDF format 38KB)
• UKMARC Exchange Record Format (PDF format 526KB)

Documentation regarding the British Library's move to MARC 21 is also available here in order to provide the historical background to the change:

• Moving to MARC 21 (PDF format 42KB)
• User Survey (PDF format 110KB)
• The MARC 21 format and the UK library community (PDF format 96KB)
• Exchange character set for use in UKMARC and MARC 21 records (PDF format 113KB)
• Changing the record (PDF format 252KB)

All of the above documentation can also be found on the UK Web Archive.

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For further information please contact:

The British Library
Metadata Services
Boston Spa, Wetherby
West Yorkshire
LS23 7BQ
United Kingdom

Tel: + 44 (0) 1937 546548
Fax: + 44 (0) 1937 546586
Email: bd-info@bl.uk