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046 - Special Coded Dates (R)

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This is an ARCHIVED VERSION of the 2008 electronic edition of the MARC 21 Concise Formats.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

Coded date information that is potentially useful for retrieval and data management purposes. If none of these types of dates is applicable to the record in hand, the field is not used.

Indicators

First - Undefined

# - Undefined

Second - Undefined

# - Undefined

Subfield Codes

$f - Action date (NR)

Date the record needs to be looked at again.

$g - Purge date (NR)

Date the information should be removed from the system as it is no longer relevant.

$h - Beginning date of event or program (NR)

$i - Ending date of event or program (NR)

$j - Date resource modified (NR)

$k - Beginning or single date created (NR)

$l - Ending date created (NR)

$m - Beginning of date valid (NR)

$n - End of date valid (NR)

$2 - Source of date (NR)

Code that identifies the source of the date scheme used in the field. Code from: MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions.

$6 - Linkage (NR)

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

$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)

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

Examples


046	##$f19931205


046	##$f199312uu


046	##$g19931010$h19931006 $i19931009


046	##$f19930904


046	##$m20011008$n20011027


046	##$j2001-07-12$2[Code for W3CDTF]

Concise Formats - 2008 Archive >> Community Information >> 01X-08X >> 046

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