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025 - Overseas Acquisition Number (R)


MARC 21 Bibliographic - Full
October 2003

First Indicator
Undefined
# - Undefined

Second Indicator
Undefined
# - Undefined


Subfield Codes
$a - Overseas acquisition number (R)
$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)

FIELD DEFINITION AND SCOPE

Number assigned by the Library of Congress to works acquired through one of its overseas acquisition programs.

Used to record the acquisition source of the item and also identifies certain programs under which materials are acquired at LC. The following types of numbers are included in this field:

Repeatable for recording multiple numbers associated with different editions of the same work on one bibliographic record.


GUIDELINES FOR APPLYING CONTENT DESIGNATORS

INDICATORS

SUBFIELD CODES

$a - Overseas acquisition number
Repeatable for recording multiple numbers associated with the same item.
025 ##$aLACAP67-3676
025 ##$aPL480:I-E-8421
025 ##$aEt-E-123
025 ##$aAe-F-355$aAe-F-562
025 ##$aI-Map-268
025 ##$aLACAP72-1719$aLACAP72-1720
025 ##$aI-H-96-903245; 23
025 ##$aI-E-E-96-912211; 79-92
$8 - Field link and sequence number
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.

INPUT CONVENTIONS

Punctuation - Field 025 does not end with a mark of punctuation. Hyphens internal to a number are carried in the MARC record.
Spacing - No spaces are present in the field.

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