There should be an LC relator code for each RBMS relator term. When a relator term is approved by the Bibliographic Standards Committee, contact the Library of Congress to establish a corresponding relator code.

Contact information for LC relator codes:

Network Development and MARC Standards Office

Library of Congress

101 Independence Ave., S.E.

Washington, DC 20540-4402

Fax: (202) 707-0115

ndmso@loc.gov

http://www.loc.gov/marc/relators/relahome.html

To submit a proposal for a relator code, supply the following information:

Scope note

Cross references (if applicable)

Literary warrant

As of January 2009 there are five relator terms that need relator code proposals.

Blurb writer

SN: Use for a person who writes a commendation or testimonial for a work, which appears on or within the publication itself.

UF: Blurber

UF: Blurbist

UF: Blurb-writer

Warrant: New York Times Online: "blurb writer" used 152 times, first dated 1919, most recent 1998.

Conservator

SN: Use for a person who documents, preserves, or treats printed or manuscript material, works of art, artifacts, or specimens.

UF: Preservationist

Warrant: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor. Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2004-05 Edition, Archivists, Curators, and Museum Technicians, on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocoso65.htm defines the term as follows: Conservators manage, care for, preserve, treat, and document works of art, artifacts, and specimens, work that may require substantial historical, scientific, and archaeological research.

Marbler

SN:

UF:

Warrant:

Medium

SN: Use for a person who purports to communicate with spirits.

UF: Channel

UF: Clairvoyant

UF: Psychic

Warrant:

Comment Field: Proposed by Lauro O'Keefe, 8/03. Although modern specialist usage recognizes distinctions among the functions of "medium," "psychic," "channel," and "clairvoyant," these terms appear to be less distinct in earlier works. This accounts for the inclusion of UFs that are not strictly equivalent according to specialists in psychic phenomena.

Subscriber

SN: Use for a person who purchases or pledges to purchase an item in advance of its publication.

UF: none

Warrant: Carter, ABC, 8th ed. "... expensive books, privately printed books, special copies ... or even the whole edition would sometimes be issued on subscription. Subscribers who responded to the preliminary proposal might be asked to pay part of the price in advance ... And in many cases their names would be printed, in a list of subscribers ..."