3.C. Place of publication, production, distribution, broadcast, etc.

AACR2 1.4C, 6.4C

3.C.1. AACR2 1.4C1, 6.4C1

Transcribe the place of publication, production , distribution, or place from which the broadcast was made, etc., in the form and grammatical case in which it appears.

Köln

Lugduni Batavorum

Den Haag

Based on FIAF 3.2.1

For motion pictures and videorecordings, give the name of the country, rather than the local place, which relates to the function of the corporate body to follow.

Italy : Ambrosio [producer]

If the name of a place appears in more than one language or script, give the form in the language or script of the title proper. If this criterion does not apply, give the form that appears first.

3.C.2. AACR2 1.4C2
Supply another form of the name of a place if such an addition is considered desirable as an aid to identifying the place.

Lerpwl [Liverpool]

Christiania [Oslo]

3.C.3. Adapted from AACR2 1.4C3

If the name of the country, state, province, etc., is available from the sources of information (see 3.A.2), transcribe it after the name of the place if it is considered necessary for identification, or if it is considered necessary to distinguish the place from others of the same name. Supply the name of the country, state, province, etc., if it does not appear in the sources of information but is known and is considered necessary for identification or distinction, using the English form of the name if there is one. Use abbreviations according to AACR2. Alternatively, use the form in the language and/or script of the archive or cataloguing agency.

City and country, etc., appear in source of information:
Tolworth, England

Carbondale, Ill.

City alone appears in source of information:
Waco [Tex.]

London [Ont.]

Perth [W.A.]

3.C.4. AACR2 1.4C4

If a place name is found only in an abbreviated form in the sources of information, transcribe it as found, and add the full form or complete the name in square brackets.

Mpls [i.e. Minneapolis]

Rio [de Janeiro]

3.C.5. AACR2 1.4C5

If two or more places in which a publisher, producer, distributor, broadcaster, etc., has offices are named in the sources of information, give the first named place. Give any subsequently named place that is given prominence by the layout or typography of the source of information. If the first named place and any place given prominence are not in the home country of the cataloguing agency, give also the first of any subsequently named places that is in the home country. Omit all other places.

Toronto
(Source of information reads: Toronto, Buffalo, London.
Cataloguing agency in Canada)

Montréal ; Toronto
(Toronto given prominence in typography)

Toronto ; Buffalo
(Source of information reads: Toronto, Buffalo, London
Cataloguing agency in the United States)

New York ; London ; Sydney
(London given prominence by typography. Cataloguing agency in Australia)

For items with two or more places relating to two or more publishers, production companies, distributors, broadcasters, etc., see 3.D.8-3.D.9.

3.C.6. AACR2 1.4C6

If the local place of publication, production , distribution, broadcast, etc., is uncertain, supply the probable place in the main language of the source of information followed by a question mark. Enclose this supplied information in square brackets.

[Hamburg?]

If no probable local place can be given, supply if possible the name of the country, province, state, etc. If in such a case, the country, province, state, etc., is not certain, follow it by a question mark. Enclose this supplied information in square brackets.

[Canada]

[Manitoba?]

If no place or probable place can be given, give s.l. (sine loco) in square brackets, or, if applicable, its equivalent in a non-roman script.

[S.l.]

Paris : BMG Video [publisher] ; [s.l.] : Gemini programs [producer] ; [Paris] : Ariola France [distributor], 1994

3.C.7.AACR2 1.4C7

Optionally, give the full address of the publisher, production company, distributor, broadcaster, etc., after the name of the place. Enclose the full address in parentheses. Do not give the full address for major trade companies.

London (108 Gloucester Ave, London, NW1 8HX)

3.C.8. AACR2 1.4C8

Do not record a place of publication, production , distribution, broadcast, etc., for an unpublished item. Do not record s.l. in such a case. For unpublished materials, see 3.H.