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545 - Biographical or Historical Data (R)

MARC 21 Bibliographic - Full
October 2001
First Indicator
Type of data
# - No information provided
0 - Biographical sketch
1 - Administrative history

Second Indicator
Undefined
# - Undefined

Subfield Codes
$a - Biographical or historical data (NR)
$b - Expansion (NR)
$u - Uniform Resource Identifier (R)
$6 - Linkage (NR)
$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)

FIELD DEFINITION AND SCOPE

Biographical information about an individual or historical information about an institution or event used as the main entry for the item being cataloged. When a distinction between levels of detail is required, a brief summary is given in subfield $a and a fuller annotation is given in subfield $b.

GUIDELINES FOR APPLYING CONTENT DESIGNATORS

■ INDICATORS

First Indicator - Type of data
Type of data in the field.
# - No information provided
No information is provided as to the type of data in the field.
545 ##$aActive from March 15, 1905 until April 17, 1989.
0 - Biographical sketch
Information in the field is a biographical sketch.
545 0#$aBorn Kingston, N.Y., April 4, 1856; worked at J.J. Bufford's Lith. in Boston, 1890-1895.
1 - Administrative history
Information in the field is an administrative history of an organization.
545 1#$aThe Office of Geography provides research and other staff services for the interdepartmental Board on Geographic Names and the Secretary of the Interior on foreign geographic nomenclature.$bThe Office inherited functions and records of earlier boards and committees engaged in similar work. The earliest of these, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, was created by an Executive order of September 4, 1890, to ensure uniform usage throughout the executive departments of the Government ...
Second Indicator - Undefined
Undefined and contains a blank (#).

■ SUBFIELD CODES

$a - Biographical or historical data
Brief statement providing biographical information about an individual. It may also contain historical and administrative information relating to an organization.
545 0#$aBorn Kingston, N.Y., April 4, 1856; worked at J.J. Bufford's Lith. in Boston, 1890-1895.
545 ##$aAuthor and reformer. Born Harriet Elizabeth Beecher. Married (1836) Calvin Ellis Stowe (1802-1886).
$b - Expansion
Expansion of the biographical or historical data given in subfield $a.
545 1#$aThe Office of Geography provides research and other staff services for the interdepartmental Board on Geographic Names and the Secretary of the Interior on foreign geographic nomenclature.$bThe Office inherited functions and records of earlier boards and committees engaged in similar work. The earliest of these, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, was created by an Executive order of September 4, 1890, to ensure uniform usage throughout the executive departments of the Government ...
$u - Uniform Resource Identifier
Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), for example a URL or URN, which provides electronic access data in a standard syntax. This data can be used for automated access to an electronic item using one of the Internet protocols.
545 ##$aThe Faribault State School and Hospital provided care, treatment, training, and a variety of other services to mentally retarded individuals and their families. It was operated by the State of Minnesota from 1879 to 1998 under different administrative structures and with different names. A more detailed history of the Hospital may be found at$uhttp://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/80881.html
$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 545 ends with a period unless another mark of punctuation is present.

CONTENT DESIGNATOR HISTORY

$u - Uniform Resource Identifier [NEW, 2000]
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