Appendix E - Format Changes

MARC 21 Classification

October 2014

This section is provided for the lists of format changes that accompany each update to the MARC 21 Format for Classification Data.

MARC 21 FORMAT FOR CLASSIFICATION DATA

FORMAT CHANGE LIST

Update No. 19, October 2014

This page documents the changes contained in the nineteenth update to the 1999 edition of the MARC 21 Format for Classification Data. Update No. 19 (October 2014) includes changes resulting from proposals that were considered by the MARC 21 community during June 2014.

Format changes in previous updates can be found on the MARC Format Overview page.

■ Changes in repeatability:

Subfields

$gMiscellaneous information changed to repeatable in:
         700 (Index Term-Personal Name),
         710 (Index Term-Corporate Name),
         711 (Index Term-Meeting Name),
         730 (Index Term-Uniform Title).

UPDATE 19 LOCAL PRINT GUIDE

The following sections and fields were created/changed in Update No. 19 and should be printed to keep a print copy of the format up-to-date. Changes appear in red.