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247 - Former Title (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This is an ARCHIVED VERSION of the 2008 electronic edition of the MARC 21 Concise Formats.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.

Former title of the event, program, etc. used prior to the field 245 title. When displayed/printed as a note, former titles may be preceded by an introductory term or phrase, e.g., Former title:, that may be generated for display.

Indicators

First - Undefined

# - Undefined

Second - Undefined

# - Undefined

Subfield Codes

$a - Title (NR)

$b - Remainder of title (NR)

$f - Dates of title use (NR)

Dates that indicate when the former title was used.

$g - Miscellaneous information (NR)

$h - Medium (NR)

$n - Number of part/section of the title (R)

$p - Name of part/section of the title (R)

$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.

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