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FIGURE 8.4. Com monly Used MARC Subfields

Tag Fields and Subfields

010 LC card num ber $a-LCCN, $z-can cel led LCCN
020 In ter na tional Stan dard Book Num ber $a-ISBN, $b-bind ing in for ma tion,
$c-terms of availability
040 Cat a loging source $a-orig i nal cat a log ing other than LC, $b-lan guage of
cat a log ing code, $d-mod i fy ing agency code
049 Local hold ings $a-hold ing li brary code, $c-copy statement, $l-lo cal pro-
ces sing data
050 LC call num ber $a-clas si fi ca tion num ber, $b-item num ber
082 Dewey Dec i mal Clas si fi ca tion num ber $a-DDC num ber, $2-source (edi-
tion num ber)
090 Lo cal call num ber $a-lo cal clas si fi ca tion num ber, $b-lo cal item num ber
100 Main en try, per sonal name $a-name, $b-nu meration, $c-titles, $d-dates
of birth, death
245 Title statement $a-short title/title proper, $b-re minder of ti tle, $h-media
qual i fier
260 Imprint statement $a-place of pub lication, $b-name of pub lisher, $c-date
of pub li ca tion
300 Phys i cal de scrip tion $a-phys i cal de scrip tion, $b-il lus tra tion, $c-size/height
440 Series statement, ti tle traced $a-ti tle, $n-number of part, $v-volume num-
ber
520 Summary, ab stract, an notation, scope, etc. note $a-sum mary, etc. note,
$z-source

Fig ures 8.5, 8.6, and 8.7 show a few ex amples il lustrating how a bib -
liographic re cord looks when cat aloged on line us ing the MARC for mat.
The ex amples are taken from the Li brary of Con gress pub lication Un der -
stand ing USMARC Bib lio graphic. Check <http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/>
for more de tailed in for ma tion.
A look at these re cords line by line will en hance your un derstand-
ing of the or ganization of MARC re cords. First ob served are sev eral
lines called the lead ers in the fixed fields, up to the 008 field. These
fixed fields, or the con trolled variable fields, con tain re cord data such
as re cord sta tus, type, the date the re cord was en tered, the language,
bibliographic level, etc., all sup plied by the MARC sys tem. For ex am-
ple, in Fig ure 8.8 the top part be fore the 040 field is the leader. You
may have to change or add some data when they are dif ferent from
the de fault set by the sys tem, such as coun try code or lan guage code.
From the 010 field on are the vari able fields that were ex plained in
the be ginning of this chap ter. No tice that only the relevant fields are