040 - Cataloging Source (NR)


MARC 21 Bibliographic - 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This is an ARCHIVED VERSION of the 2008 electronic edition of the MARC 21 Concise Formats.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.

MARC code for or the name of the organization(s) that created the original bibliographic record, assigned MARC content designation and transcribed the record into machine-readable form, or modified (except for the addition of holdings symbols) an existing MARC record. These data and the code in 008/39 (Cataloging source) specify the parties responsible for the bibliographic record. See Appendix I: Organization Code Sources for a listing of sources used in MARC 21 records.

Indicators
First - Undefined
# - Undefined
Second - Undefined
# - Undefined
Subfield Codes
$a - Original cataloging agency (NR)
$b - Language of cataloging (NR)
MARC code for the language of cataloging in the record. Code from: MARC Code List for Languages.
$c - Transcribing agency (NR)
$d - Modifying agency (R)
$e - Description conventions (NR)
MARC code for or the title of the description rules used in creating the record when more information than is provided by the code in Leader/18 (Descriptive cataloging form) is needed.
Code from: MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions.
$6 - Linkage (NR)
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.
$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.
Examples
040 ##$aMt$cMt[Cataloging produced and input by the Montana State Library.]
040 ##$aDLC$cDLC[Cataloging produced and input by the Library of Congress.]
040 ##$aCaOTY$beng $cCaOTY[Cataloging produced and input by York University.]
040 ##$aCaQQLA$bfre $cCaOONL[Record created by Laval University in French and transcribed by the Library and Archives Canada.]
040 ##$aDLC$cCtY $dMH[LC cataloging transcribed by Yale University, subsequently modified by Harvard University.]
040 ##$aDCE-C$cDNTIS $dWU-D$dMiAnI[Cataloged by the U.S. Bureau of the Census, Customer Services Branch; transcribed by the National Technical Information Service; modified by the University of Wisconsin Data Program and Library Service and by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.]
040 ##$aCSt-H$cCSt-H $eappm[Hoover Institution cataloging, transcribed by Hoover and illustrating the optional use of subfield $e citing cataloging based on Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts]
040 ##$aDNA$cCtY $dCtY$eNARS Staff Bulletin No. 16[National Archives and Records Service cataloging, transcribed and modified by Yale University, following description conventions in NARS Staff Bulletin No. 16.]


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