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546 - Language Note (R)

MARC 21 Bibliographic - concise
September 2012

Textual information on the language or notation system used to convey the content of the described materials. A description of the alphabet, script, or other symbol system (e.g., arabic alphabet, ASCII, musical notation system, bar code, logarithmic graphing) may also be included. Coded language information is contained in fields 008/35-37 (Language) and/or 041 (Language code).

Indicators

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

Subfield Codes

$a - Language note (NR)
$b - Information code or alphabet (R)
Specifies the alphabet, script, or notation system that is used in the resource.
$3 - Materials specified (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

546 ##$aIn Hungarian; summaries in French, German, or Russian.
546 ##$aEnglish, French, or German.
546 ##$3John P. Harrington field notebooks$aApache;$bPhonetic alphabet.
546 ##$3Marriage certificate$aGerman;$bFraktur.
546 ##$aLatin;$bRoman alphabet.
546 ##$bstaff notation.
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