Leader (NR)
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This is an ARCHIVED VERSION of the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.
Fixed field that comprises the first 24 character positions
(00-23) of each record and provides information for the
processing of the record.
Character Positions
00-04 - Record length
Five-character number equal to the length of the entire
record, including itself and the record terminator. The
number is right justified and unused positions contain
zeros.
05 - Record status
Relationship of the record to a file for file maintenance
purposes.
c - Corrected or revised
d - Deleted
n - New
06 - Type of record
Characteristics and definitions of the components of the
record.
q - Community information
07 - Kind of data
Kind of data founs in the record.
n - Individual
Individual with a particular expertise (e.g., teacher,
interpreter, storyteller, civic leader).
o - Organization
p - Program or service
Offering or activity of a group or institution which
carries out the the organization's purpose.
q - Event
z - Other
Entity other than those specified by the other defined
codes (e.g., a facility such as a planetarium on a
university campus).
08 - Undefined character position
Undefined; contains a blank (#).
09 - Character coding scheme
Character coding scheme used in the record.
# - MARC-8
a - UCS/Unicode
10 - Indicator count
Computer-generated number 2 that indicates the number of
character positions used for indicators in a variable data
field.
11 - Subfield code count
Computer-generated number 2 that indicates the number of
character positions used for each subfield code in a
variable data field.
12-16 - Base address of data
Computer-generated, five-character numeric string that
indicates the first character position of the first
variable control field in a record. The number is right
justified and each unused position contains a zero.
17-19 - Undefined character positions
Undefined three character positions; each contains a blank
(#).
20 - Length of the length-of-field portion
Always contains a 4.
21 - Length of the starting-character-position
portion
Always contains a 5.
22 - Length of the implementation-defined
portion
Always contains a 0.
23 - Undefined
Undefined; always contains a 0.
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