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507 - Scale Note for Graphic Material (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This is an ARCHIVED VERSION of the 2008 electronic edition of the MARC 21 Concise Formats.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.

Scale of a graphic material item given as a note. For visual materials, this field contains the scale of architectural drawings or three-dimensional artifacts. For maps, the scale of an item is contained in this field only in pre-AACR 2 cataloging records. Scale information is contained in field 255 (Mathematical Data Area) in AACR 2 formulated records.

Indicators

First - Undefined

# - Undefined

Second - Undefined

# - Undefined

Subfield Codes

$a - Representative fraction of scale note (NR)

$b - Remainder of scale note (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.

Examples


507	##$aScale 1:10 of the original.[A model]
507	##$aScale 1/16 in. to 1 ft.
507	##$aScale 1:500,000;$b1 in. equals 8 miles.
507	##$bPerspective map not drawn to scale.

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