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878 - Item Information-Indexes (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This is an ARCHIVED VERSION of the 2008 electronic edition of the MARC 21 Concise Formats.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.

Item information about indexes that are not separately cataloged in the holdings of the reporting organization. A display may be generated from the contents of field 878 and its related 852 (Location), 855/865 (Captions and Pattern/Enumeration and Chronology), or 868 (Textual Holdings) field to which it is linked by subfield $8 (Field link and sequence number) or related by subfield $3 (Materials specified).

Guidelines for applying the content designators defined for field 878 and input conventions are given in the 876-878 Item Information Fields--General Information section.