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853 - Captions and Pattern-Basic Bibliographic Unit (R)

This is an ARCHIVED VERSION of the 2008 electronic edition of the MARC 21 Concise Formats.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

Caption that is appropriate for each level of enumeration and chronology that is present in a related 863 Enumeration and Chronology Basic Bibliographic Unit field and codes that define the publication pattern of the item. A display may be generated from the contents of field 853 and the related 863 field(s) to which it is linked by subfield $8 (Field link and sequence number).

Guidelines for applying the content designators defined for field 853 are given in the Caption and Pattern Fields--General Information section.