LC Cataloging Newsline v1n03 (March 1993)
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                         LC CATALOGING NEWSLINE
            Online Newsletter of the Cataloging Directorate
                          Library of Congress
Volume 1, no. 3             ISSN 1066-8829                  March 1993
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                               CONTENTS

                    1. Czech Republic and Slovakia
          2. Country Codes for New Republics from Yugoslavia
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                      CZECH REPUBLIC AND SLOVAKIA

      The Library of Congress has decided upon the headings for the
two new soverign nations created from the former Czechoslovakia. 
The headings will be Czech Republic and Slovakia.

      Czech Republic is valid for the sovereign nation created
January 1, 1993, and for the entity that was one of the component
parts of the former Czechoslovakia for the period 1990-1992.  The
heading used for the component part, Czech Republic
(Czechoslovakia), is no longer valid.  That authority record (n 
90-718759) has been revised to refer to the sovereign nation.

      Slovakia is valid for the sovereign nation created January 1,
1993, the independent republic 1939-1945, and the pre-1918 entity
belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.  Since the new nation is
also referred to in English as the Slovak Republic and that form is
a valid name heading for the component part of the former
Czechoslovakia for the period 1990-1992, a reference has been added
to the name authority record for Slovakia (n  50-075233) in the
form Slovak Republic (1993- ).  In subject cataloging work,
Slovakia will also be used for the period 1990-1992.

      Related to the creation of these new nations, two new country
codes are being added to the USMARC CODE LIST FOR COUNTRIES.  The
new code for the Czech Republic is xr; the new code for Slovakia is
xo.  The code for the former Czechoslovakia (cs) will be made
obsolete.

      As noted in LC CATALOGING NEWSLINE, volume 1, no. 2, the new
geographic area codes for the Czech Republic and Slovakia are e-xr
and e-xo respectively.
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            COUNTRY CODES FOR NEW REPUBLICS FROM YUGOSLAVIA

      Four new country codes have also been created for USMARC CODE
LIST FOR COUNTRIES for the four newly independent nations that were
part of Yugoslavia.  The new code for Bosnia and Hercegovina is bn;
for Croatia, ci; for Macedonia (Republic), xn; and for Slovenia,
xv.

      The code for Yugoslavia (yu) will continue to be used for the
republics of Montenegro and Serbia.
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