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016 - National Bibliographic Agency Control Number (R)


MARC 21 Bibliographic - Concise
2007

Unique numbers that have been assigned to a record by a national bibliographic agency other than the Library of Congress. The control number may also appear in field 001 (Control Number) in records distributed by the same national agency. This number is a record control number used in a national bibliographic agency system, rather than a number used for an entry in a national bibliography, field 015 (National Bibliography Number).

Indicators
First - National bibliographic agency
# - Library and Archives Canada
7 - Source specified in subfield $2
Used when the source of the control number is indicated by a code in subfield $2. Codes from: MARC Code List for Organizations.
Second - Undefined
# - Undefined
Subfield Codes
$a - Record control number (NR)
$z - Canceled/invalid control number (R)
$2 - Source (NR)
$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.
Examples
016 ##$a#730032015##rev
016 ##$a#84074272XE#
016 7#$a94.763966.7$2GyFmDB[Record control number is for the Deutsche Bibliothek.]
016 7#$aPTBN000004618$2PoLiBN[Record control number is for the Biblioteca Nacional, Portugal.]
016 ##$a#890000298##rev$z#89000298##
016 7#$ab9117951$zE000214460$2Uk[Code "Uk" identifies the British Library as the source of the control numbers]

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