MARC 21 Concise Bibliographic: Series Statement Fields (4XX)

This is an ARCHIVED VERSION of the 2000 electronic edition of the MARC 21 Concise Formats. Please see www.loc.gov/marc/concise/ for the most up-to-date version of the electronic MARC 21 Concise Formats.

Fields 440 and 490 contain series statements. Field 440 also provides an added entry for the series. A series statement is recorded in field 490 when either it is given no added entry in the record (an untraced series) or is given an added entry in a form that differs from the series statement appearing on the item. One of fields 800-830 (Series added entries) is used in conjunction with field 490 when the series is to be traced differently.

The parentheses that customarily enclose a series statement and the tracing Series., preceded by a roman numeral, in some displays for field 440 are not carried in the MARC record. They may be generated based on the field tag.

Information for Translators and Other Users
Items highlighted in red indicate changes made after the 1998 edition of the USMARC Concise Formats was published (This publication included the 1994 base text, along with Updates No. 1 (March 1995), No. 2 (March 1996) and No. 3 (July 1997) of the USMARC Format for Bibliographic Data).

Items highlighted in green indicate changes made to the online format only. These changes will be corrected in the 2001 printed edition of the MARC 21 Concise Formats (Available soon).

• 440 - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE (R)
• 490 - SERIES STATEMENT (R)

440 - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE (R)

Indicators

• First - Undefined
  • # - Undefined
• Second - Nonfiling characters
  A value that indicates the number of character positions associated with an initial definite or indefinite article at the beginning of a title that are to be disregarded in sorting and filing processes.
  • 0-9 - Number of nonfiling characters

Subfield Codes

• $a - Title (NR)
• $n - Number of part/section of a work (R)
  A number designation of a part/section of a series.
• $p - Name of part/section of a work (R)
  A name designation of a part/section of a series.
• $v - Volume number/sequential designation (NR)
• $x - International Standard Serial Number (NR)
• $6 - Linkage (NR) See Control Subfields
• $8 - Field link and sequence number (R) See Control Subfields

Examples

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490 - SERIES STATEMENT (R)

Indicators

• First - Specifies whether series is traced
  A value that indicates whether the record contains a corresponding 800-830 series added entry field.
  • 0 - Series not traced
  • 1 - Series traced differently
• Second - Undefined
  • # - Undefined

Subfield Codes

• $a - Series statement (R)
  A series title that may also contain a statement of responsibility, other title information, dates, or volume numbers preceding or appearing as part of the title.
• $l - Library of Congress call number (NR)
  An LC series call number that is used for a serial that has been issued as part of the series.
• $v - Volume number/sequential designation (R)
• $x - International Standard Serial Number (NR)
• $6 - Linkage (NR) See Control Subfields
• $8 - Field link and sequence number (R) See Control Subfields

Examples

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