Authority-controlled field.

When the subject of a work is a corporate body, the authorized form of the name as found in the UNBIS Name Authority File is entered in 610 $a. In case of more than one corporate name subject, each is entered in a separate 610 field. If an UNBIS authority record for a corporate name does not exist, a new authority record is created.

Examples:

610 27 $a Association of Tin Producing Countries

610 27 $a Green Earth Foundation (Ghana)

610 27 $a IBRD

610 27 $a Institute of Water Studies (Madras, India)

610 17 $a New Zealand. Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment

610 27 $a African Union. Assembly of Heads of State and Government (1st : 2002 : Durban, South Africa)

610 27 $a UN. Security Council Mission to West Africa, 2003

610 27 $a UNCTAD (11th sess. : 2004 : São Paulo, Brazil)

For sessional or annual reports of UN bodies, the same corporate name entered in field 710 should also be entered in field 610.

The first repeat of tag 610 should always be the corporate subject heading for the body, with its sessional qualifiers.

Example:

191 TD/B/55/10
245 10 $a Report of the Trade and Development Board on its 55th session, held at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, from 15 to 26 September 2008 : $b report to the United Nations General Assembly
610 27 $a UNCTAD. Trade and Development Board (55th sess. : 2008 : Geneva)
610 27 $a UNCTAD. Trade and Development Board (55th sess. : 2008 : Geneva) $g Resolutions and decisions
610 27 $a UNCTAD. Trade and Development Board (55th sess. : 2008 : Geneva) $g Agenda
610 27 $a UNCTAD. Trade and Development Board (55th sess. : 2008 : Geneva) $g Participants

Certain modifying terms of an administrative, organizational or procedural nature may be entered in subfield $g of 610 tags in order to create pre-coordinated corporate subjects. Every pre-coordinated corporate subject is authority-controlled. The modifying terms permit greater specificity, which is especially important with regard to materials about UN corporate bodies.

Accounts (years if applicable)
Activities (years required)
Administration
Agenda
Budget (years if applicable)
Budget contributions (years if applicable)
Buildings management
Calendar of meetings (years if applicable)
Dissolution
Establishment
Financial implications
Financing (years if applicable)
General debate
History *in use from Nov. 2008
Medium-term plan (years if applicable)
Members
Officers
Organizational reform
Organizational structure
Participants
Personnel questions
Programme management
Recommendations
Representatives' credentials
Resolutions and decisions
Rules of procedure
Staff composition
Terms of reference
Work organization
Work programme (years if applicable)

The term History was added to the List of Modifying Terms in November 2008. Prior to that time, items concerning history of organizations were indexed with the modifying term Activities followed by the range of years starting with the organization’s creation, and/or the Thesaurus term HISTORY in tag 650.

Indexers should be attentive to logical and appropriate linkage of modifiers with corporate subject headings that include sessional qualifiers.

Some of the modifiers may be used with corporate subject headings that include sessional qualifiers, while others should generally be used only with corporate subject headings without sessional qualifiers. For example, the coordinating term Members should be used in tag 610 corporate subject headings without sessional qualifiers, while the term Participants would be used either in a corporate subject heading with sessional qualifiers for a document concerning members participating in a specific session or meeting, or in a corporate subject heading without sessional qualifiers for a document discussing the issue of participation at sessions of a body in general.

Modifiers that are normally only assigned to corporate subject headings without sessional qualifiers: Accounts, Activities, Administration, Budget, Budget contributions, Buildings management, Calendar of meetings, Dissolution, Establishment, Financing, History, Medium-term plan, Members, Organizational reform, Organizational structure, Personnel questions, Programme management, Rules of procedure, Staff composition, Work programme.

Modifiers that may be assigned to corporate subject headings either with sessional qualifiers (if reference to specific session or meeting) or without sessional qualifiers (if reference to the body in general), as appropriate: Agenda, Financing, General debate, Officers, Participants, Recommendations, Resolutions and decisions, Work organization.

The only modifying terms that should be assigned to corporate subject headings for individual officer-holders or mandate-holders (special rapporteurs, representatives, experts, etc.) are Recommendations and Terms of reference:

610 $a UN. Human Rights Council. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief $g Recommendations

610 $a UN High Commissioner for Refugees $g Terms of reference

 
While the modifying term Activities is normally only assigned to corporate subject headings that do not have session or year qualifiers, and must be followed by a year or range of years between parentheses, an exception is made for documents of the Security Council. The modifying term Activities may be linked with the corporate subject heading for a year of the Security Council and followed by a specific month and year:

610 $a UN. Security Council (62nd year : 2007) $g Activities (Dec. 2007)

In the case of several of the modifying terms (Budget, Calendar of meetings, Rules of procedure, Terms of reference, Work programme), corresponding Content Codes (tag 089) should also be assigned if actual text of a budget, calendar of meetings, etc., is contained in a document.

Examples of pre-coordinated corporate subjects:

610 27 $a UN. Security Council (58th year : 2003) $g Resolutions and decisions
610 27 $a UN University $g Accounts (2000-2001)
610 27 $a World Food Programme $g Activities (2002)
610 27 $a World Solidarity Fund $g Terms of reference
610 27 $a UN. ESCWA. Statistical Committee (5th sess. : 2002 : Beirut) $g Recommendations
610 27 $a UN. ESCAP $g Budget (2004-2005)

Modifiers used in 610 subfield $g field should not be repeated in 650 tags in the same bibliographic record.

For certain types of UN documents (e.g. documents consisting entirely of agendas, lists of participants, calendars of meetings, rules of procedure) it is not necessary to add any 650 tags (topical subjects) in addition to the pre-coordinated corporate subject. In other cases, additional subjects might be recorded in 650 tags, depending on the contents of the document.

Examples:

610 27 $a UN. General Assembly (58th sess. : 2003-2004) $g Participants
[no 650 topical subjects required if the document consists entirely of a list of participants]

610 27 $a UN. ECE $g Calendar of meetings (2003-2004)
[no 650 topical subjects required if the document consists entirely of a calendar of meetings]

610 27 $a UN. Commission on Human Rights (59th sess. : 2003 : Geneva) $g Agenda
[no 650 topical subjects required if the document consists entirely of an agenda]

But:

610 27 $a UN $g Personnel questions
650 $a DEPENDENCY ALLOWANCES
650 $a PROFESSIONAL STAFF
650 $a PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT

610 27 $a UN. International Law Commision $g Members
650 $a ELECTION OF MEMBERS

610 27 $a UNCTAD $g Programme management
650 $a INTERNATIONAL TRADE
650 $a PROGRAMME EVALUATION

610 27 $a UN. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights $g Staff composition
650 $a GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION

610 27 $a European Forestry Commission $g Work programme (2003- 2004)
650 $a SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY
650 $a EUROPE

[in the examples above, additional 650 topical subjects are used in addition to the modifying term in 610 $g]