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247 - Former Title (R)

MARC 21 Bibliographic - concise
October 2014

Former title proper used when one cataloging record represents several titles associated with an entity.

Indicators

First - Title added entry
0 - No added entry
1 - Added entry
Second - Note controller
0 - Display note
1 - Do not display note

Subfield Codes

$a - Title (NR)
$b - Remainder of title (NR)
$f - Date or sequential designation (NR)
Dates or volume and issue numbers that relate the former variant title to the record.
$g - Miscellaneous information (R)
$h - Medium (NR)
$n - Number of part/section of a work (R)
$p - Name of part/section of a work (R)
$x - International Standard Serial Number (NR)
$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

247 10$aEverywoman's magazine$fv. 1-24, Jan. 1948-57.
247 10$aJournalism bulletin$fMar. 1924-Nov. 1927
247 01$a<former title>$g(varies slightly)
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