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378 - Fuller Form of Personal Name (NR)


MARC 21 Authority - full
September 2011

First Indicator Second Indicator
Undefined
# - Undefined

Undefined
# - Undefined


Subfield Codes
  • $q - Fuller form of personal name (NR)
  • $u - Uniform Resource Identifier (R)
  • $v - Source of information (R)
  • $6 - Linkage (NR)
  • $8 - Field link and sequence number (R)

FIELD DEFINITION AND SCOPE

A name element used to distinguish a person from another person with the same name. It may be needed when a part of a name is represented only by an initial or abbreviation in the form chosen as the preferred name, or when a part of the name is not included in the form chosen as the preferred name. This field applies only to the name in the 1XX.


GUIDELINES FOR APPLYING CONTENT DESIGNATORS

INDICATORS

SUBFIELD CODES

$q - Fuller form of personal name

Full form of name needed to distinguish a person from another person with the same preferred name.

100 1#$aJohnson, A.W.$q(Alva William)
378 ##$qAlva William
100 0#$aH. D.$q(Hilda Doolittle)
378 ##$qHilda Doolittle

$u - Uniform Resource Identifier

Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), for example a URL or URN, which provides electronic access data in a standard syntax. This data can be used for automated access to an electronic item using one of the Internet protocols.

In field 378, subfield $u is used to record the source of information about fuller form of personal name accessible electronically.

$v - Source of information

Source where the information recorded in field 378 was found if not through a URI.

$6 - Linkage

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

$8 - Field link and sequence number

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


CONTENT DESIGNATOR HISTORY

Field 378 - Fuller Form of Personal Name [NEW, 2011]

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