Leader (NR)
MARC 21 Holdings - Concise
2008
This is an ARCHIVED VERSION of the
2009/2010 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
procesing of the record.
Character Positions
00-04 - Record length
Computer-generated, five-character number equal to the
length of the entire record, including itself and the
record terminator. The number is right justified and each
unused position contains a zero.
05 - Record status
Relationship of the record to a file.
c - Corrected or revised
d - Deleted
n - New
06 - Type of record
Characteristics and definitions of the components of the
record. When holdings information is embedded in a MARC
bibliographic record, the Leader/06 code may be contained
in field 841 $a (Holdings Coded Data Values, Type of
record).
u - Unknown
v - Multipart item holdings
x - Single-part item holdings
y - Serial item holdings
07-08 - Undefined character positions
Both are undefined; each 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
indicators occurring in each variable data field.
11 - Subfield code length
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
specifies 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 - Encoding level
Level-of-specificity of the holdings statement. Codes 1, 2,
3, and 4 reflect the requirements of Levels 1, 2, 3, and 4
of Holdings Statements for Bibliographic Items
(ANSI/NISO Z39.71) (formerly Serial Holdings
Statements (ANSI/NISO Z39.44)) and Holdings
Statements for Non-Serial Items (ANSI/NISO Z39.57))
and codes 1, 2, and 3 reflect the requirements of Levels 1,
2, and 3 of Holdings Statements-Summary Level (ISO
10324). The MARC content designators given in the
description of each holdings level are the ones required by
Z39.71. Optional data elements for each level are not
mentioned here; they are given in each standard. A
single-part item holdings statement is normally recorded at
level 1. A multipart or serial item holdings statement may
be recorded at any level.
When holdings information is embedded in a MARC
bibliographic record, this information may be contained in
field 841 (Holdings Coded Data Values), subfield ‡e
(Encoding level), which is also embedded in the
bibliographic record.
1 - Holdings level 1
2 - Holdings level 2
3 - Holdings level 3
4 - Holdings level 4
5 - Holdings level 4 with piece
designation
Holdings statement includes physical piece designation
that is contained in subfield ‡p (Piece designation) of
field 852 (Location, one of the 863-865 Enumeration and
Chronology fields, or an 876-878 Item Information field,
or in subfield ‡a (Textual holdings) in one of the
866-868 Textual Holdings fields.
m - Mixed level
Holdings are recorded at more than one level, for
example, when the levels for retrospective and current
holdings differ. The value in the first indicator
position (Field encoding level) of the applicable 863-865
Enumeration and Chronology and 866-868 Textual Holdings
fields indicate the level for each holdings data field.
u - Unknown
z - Other level
18 - Item information in record
Whether item information is in the record, contained in one
or more occurrences of fields 876-878 (Item Information
fields).
i - Item information
n - No item information
19 - Undefined character position
Undefined and contains a blank (#).
20 - Length of the length-of-field portion
Always a 4.
21 - Length of the starting-character-position
portion
Always a 5.
22 - Length of the implementation-defined
portion
Always a 0.
23 - Undefined
Undefined; always contains a 0.
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