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866-868 - Textual Holdings-General Information

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This is an ARCHIVED VERSION of the 2008 electronic edition of the MARC 21 Concise Formats.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

866 - Textual Holdings - Basic Bibliographic Unit (R)

867 - Textual Holdings - Supplementary Material (R)

868 - Textual Holdings - Indexes (R)

Textual Holdings Statement Fields - General Information

Textual description which may include both the captions and enumeration and chronology for the holdings of a bibliographic item in the collections of the reporting organization. These fields are normally not used in holdings for single-part items. They may be used instead of the coded 853-855 Captions and Pattern and 863-865 Enumeration and Chronology fields for multipart and serial items when those fields cannot be used adequately to describe the holdings. The 866-868 fields may also be used in addition to an Enumeration and Chronology field and any related Captions and Pattern field to record and generate an alternative display for all or part of the enumeration and chronology and captions and pattern fields.

A general description of the four types of holdings data fields, their relationship to each other, and the repeatability of each is given in the Holdings Data--General Information section. Guidelines for recording item information related to holdings data in the 866-868 fields is given in the Item Information--General Information section.

INDICATORS

First Indicator - Field encoding level

Level of specificity of the enumeration and chronology in the field.

# - No information provided

3 - Holdings level 3

Field contains summary enumeration and chronology (that is only at the first level of enumeration and chronology in a compressed form).

4 - Holdings level 4

Field contains detailed enumeration and chronology information (that is, at the first and all subsequent levels and in either itemized or compressed form or a combination of the two).

5 - Holdings level 4 with piece designation

Field contains detailed enumeration and chronology information and an identifying number for the physical piece in subfield $a (Textual holdings).

Second - Type of notation

Whether the holdings contained in subfield $a is formulated according to standard or non-standard notation.

0 - Non-standard

1 - ANSI/NISO Z39.71 or ISO 10324

2 - ANSI Z39.42

7 - Source specified in subfield $2

SUBFIELD CODES

$a - Textual holdings

Textual form of the holdings may be used either instead of or in addition to holdings recorded in the 853-855 Captions and Pattern and 863-865 Enumeration and Chronology fields.

$x - Nonpublic note

$z - Public note

$2 - Source of notation

$6 - Linkage

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

$8 - Field link and sequence number

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

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