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511 - Participant or Performer Note (R)


MARC 21 Bibliographic - Full
October 2001

First Indicator
Display constant controller
0 - No display constant generated
1 - Cast

Second Indicator
Undefined
# - Undefined


Subfield Codes
$a - Participant or performer note (NR)
$6 - Linkage (NR)
$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)

FIELD DEFINITION AND SCOPE

Information about the participants, players, narrators, presenters, or performers.

The participant or performer note is sometimes displayed and/or printed with an introductory term or phrase that is generated as a display constant based on the first indicator value.


GUIDELINES FOR APPLYING CONTENT DESIGNATORS

INDICATORS

First Indicator - Display constant controller
Controls the generation of a display constant preceding the note.
0 - No display constant generated
1 - Cast
Used to generate the display constant Cast:.
511 1#$aAnne Baxter (Louise), Maria Perschy (Angela), Gustavo Rojo (Bill), Reginald Gilliam (Mr. Johnson), [Catherine Elliot?] (Aunt Sallie), Ben Tatar (waiter).
Second Indicator - Undefined
Undefined and contains a blank (#).

SUBFIELD CODES

$a - Participant or performer note
Entire text of the participant or performer note.
511 0#$aMarshall Moss, violin ; Neil Roberts, harpsichord.
511 0#$aHosted by Hugh Downs.
511 1#$aJackie Glanville.
511 1#$aColin Blakely, Jane Lapotaire.
511 0#$aAnchor, Dan Rather.
511 0#$aVoices: Peter Ustinov, Cloris Leachman, Sally Kellerman, Andy Devine.
511 0#$aPresenter: Alfred Hitchcock.
511 0#$aNarrator: Burl Ives.
$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.

INPUT CONVENTIONS

Punctuation - Field 511 ends with a period unless another mark of punctuation is present.
Display Constants - Introductory term Cast: is not carried in the MARC record. It may be system generated as a display constant associated with the first indicator value.
First indicator Display constant
0 [no display constant]
1 Cast:

CONTENT DESIGNATOR HISTORY

Indicator 1 - Display constant controller [NEW, 1980]
2 - Presenter (VM, MU) [OBSOLETE, 1993]
3 - Narrator (VM, MU) [OBSOLETE, 1993]

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