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522 - Geographic Coverage Note (R)

MARC 21 Bibliographic - Full

October 2000

First Indicator
Display constant controller
# - Geographic coverage
8 - No display constant generated

Second Indicator
Undefined
# - Undefined


Subfield Codes
$a - Geographic coverage note (NR) $6 - Linkage (NR)	$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)

FIELD DEFINITION AND SCOPE

Information about the geographic coverage of the described material (usually survey material). This information in coded form may be contained in field 052 (Geographic Classification Code).

Sometimes displayed and/or printed with an introductory 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.

# - Geographic coverage

Used to generate the display constant Geographic coverage:.

8 - No display constant generated

Second Indicator - Undefined

Undefined and contains a blank (#).

■ SUBFIELD CODES

$a - Geographic coverage note

Entire text of the note.


522	8#$aCounty-level data from four Northwestern states (Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington).
522	##$aCanada.

$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 522 ends with a period unless another mark of punctuation is present.

Display Constant - Introductory phrase Geographic coverage: 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
#	Geographic coverage:
8	[no display constant]

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