Appendix G - Format Changes
MARC 21 Bibliographic
April 2014
This section is provided for the lists of format changes
that accompany each update to the MARC 21 Format for
Bibliographic Data.
MARC 21 FORMAT FOR BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATA
FORMAT CHANGE LIST
Update No. 18, April 2014
This page documents the changes contained in the eighteenth
update to the 1999 edition of the MARC 21 Format for
Bibliographic Data. Update No. 18 (April 2014)
includes changes resulting from proposals that were
considered by the MARC 21 community during January 2014.
UPDATE 18 CHANGES
■ New content designators:
Indicators
5881st indicator
(Display constant controller):
# - No information provided
0 - Source of description
1 - Latest issue consulted
■ Changes in content designator
names and definitions:
Codes
Code q - Quadraphonic
renamed Quadraphonic, multichannel, or surround
and redescribed in Sound Recording 007/04 (Configuration of playback
channels).
Subfields
$fTransmission speed
renamed Encoded bitrate in 347 (Digital File
Characteristics)
$cLocation of meeting
changed to repeatable in:
110 (Main Entry-Corporate Name),
111 (Main Entry-Meeting Name),
610 (Subject Added Entry-Corporate Name),
611 (Subject Added Entry-Meeting Name),
710 (Added Entry-Corporate Name),
711 (Added Entry-Meeting Name),
810 (Series Added Entry-Corporate Name),
811 (Series Added Entry-Meeting Name).