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666 - General Explanatory Reference-Name (NR)

MARC 21 Authority - Concise

2008

This is an ARCHIVED VERSION of the 2008 electronic edition of the MARC 21 Concise Formats. Please see loc.gov/marc/concise/ for the most up-to-date version of the electronic MARC 21 Concise Formats.

Note in a reference record that explains how names having a common characteristic (e.g., surnames with separately written prefixes) are entered in a file.

Indicators

First - Undefined

# - Undefined

Second - Undefined

# - Undefined

Subfield Codes

$a - General explanatory reference (R)

$6 - Linkage (NR)

See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.

$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)

See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.

Examples


666	##$aNames beginning with this prefix are also entered under La (e.g., La Bretèque, Pierre de) or under the name following the prefix (e.g., Torre, Marie de la)


666	##$aNames of corporate bodies beginning with this word are entered under the next word in the name.

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