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020 - International Standard Book Number (R)


MARC 21 Bibliographic - concise
September 2013

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) assigned to a monographic publication by designated agencies in each country participating in the program. The field may include terms of availability and canceled or invalid ISBNs, such as ISBNs with invalid check digits or that are not applicable to the item being cataloged. It may be repeated for multiple numbers associated with the item (e.g., ISBNs for the hard bound and paperback manifestations; ISBNs for a set as a whole and for the individual parts in the set).

Indicators

First - Undefined
# - Undefined
Second - Undefined
# - Undefined

Subfield Codes

$a - International Standard Book Number (NR)
Valid ISBN. ISBN and the embedded hyphens may be generated for display.
$c - Terms of availability (NR)
Price or a brief statement of availability and any paranthetical qualifying information about availability.
$q - Qualifying information (R)
A brief statement of qualifying information concerning the item associated with a number being recorded in subfield $a or subfield $z.
$z - Canceled/invalid ISBN (R)
Canceled or invalid ISBN. ISBN (invalid) and the embedded hyphens may be generated for display.
$6 - Linkage (NR)
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.
$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.

Examples

020 ##$a0491001304
020 ##$a0914378260$qpbk.$qv. 1$c$5.00
020 ##$a0394502884$qRandom House$c$12.50
020 ##$a0877790019$qblack leather$z0877780116 :$c$14.00
020 ##$c$8.95
020 ##$cRs15.76 ($5.60 U.S.)
020 ##$a0460044524$cRental material
020 ##$cFor sale ($200.00 for 3/4 in.; $150.00 for 1/2 in.)
020 ##$a0394170660$qRandom House$qpaperback$c$4.95
020 ##$a0456789012$qreel 1
020 ##$z0567890123$qreel 2
020 ##$a9780060723804$qacid-free paper
020 ##$a9780060799748$qtrade
020 ##$a0717941728$qfolded$c$0.45

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