MARC 21 Concise Format for Bibliographic Data: 033: Date/Time and Place of an Event (Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress)

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Formatted date/time and/or coded place of creation, capture, or broadcast associated with an event or the finding of a naturally occurring object. This information in textual form is contained in field 518 (Date/Time and Place of an Event Note).

First - Type of date in subfield $a

# - No date information

No date information is given and therefore, there is no subfield $a.

0 - Single date

1 - Multiple single dates

Also used for two consecutive dates.

2 - Range of dates

Used, for example, when the period of capture, execution, etc., spanned more than two consecutive days, and the individual dates are unknown or too numerous to be specified.

Second - Type of event

# - No information provided

0 - Capture

Pertains to the recording of sound, the filming of visual images, the making or producing of an item, or the creation of an item not involving recording or filming.

1 - Broadcast

Pertains to the broadcasting (i.e., transmission) or re-broadcasting of sound or visual images.

2 - Finding

Pertains to the finding of a naturally occurring object.

$a - Formatted date/time (R)

Seventeen characters, recorded in the pattern yyyymmddhhmm+-hmm, that indicate the actual or approximate date (yyyymmdd)/time (hhmm) of capture, finding, or broadcast and Time Differential Factor (+-hhmm) information. A hyphen (-) is used for unknown digits in the year/month/day segment. Within each segment, the data is right justified and any unused position contains a zero.

$b - Geographic classification area code (R)

Four to six character numeric code for the main geographic area associated with an item. The code consists of the appropriate classification number from the range G3190-G9980 derived from the Library of Congress Classification--Class G by dropping the letter G.

$c - Geographic classification subarea code (R)

Alphanumeric Cutter number for a geographic subarea, derived from the Library of Congress Classification-Class G or expanded Cutter number lists for place names. Cutter numbers for places in the United States are also published in Geographic Cutters. Class G, Geographic Cutters, and the expanded Cutter lists are maintained by the Library of Congress.

$3 - Materials specified (NR)

$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.


033	00$a1858----[An original or historical graphic item that was executed in 1858.]


033	02$a19750305$b4034 $cR4[A meteorite that was found on March 5, 1975, in Richmond, Texas.]


033	01$a1962----2130[An episode of a television series with the specific broadcast date unknown, but known to have been broadcast at 9:30 p.m. (EST).]


033	01$a198707281409+0530 $b7654$cC2[A radio program broadcast at 2 hours, 9 minutes and 23 seconds past noon on July 28, 1987 in Calcutta, India (five and one-half hours different from the Universal Time and east of the Greenwich Meridian).]


033	00$a19780916$b3964 $cN2[A videorecording that was filmed in Nashville, Tennessee on September 16, 1978.]


033	20$a197601--$a197606-- $b6714$cR7$b6714 $cV4[A motion picture that was filmed on location in Rome and Venice from January through June 1976.]


033	00$3Horse$a1925----[A horse component of a sculpture group that was cast in 1925.]


033	11$a198709071900-0400 $a198710012030-0400[A radio program.]


033	21$a197809102000-0400 $a197809142000-0400[A television mini-series.]


033	10$a19770115$a19770210 $b3824$cP5$b3804 $cN4


033	10$a19770115$a19770210 $b3824$cP5$b3804 $cN4

033 - Date/Time and Place of an Event (R)