TECHNICAL NOTICE (November 6, 2002)

Format for Community Information

Format Changes List
Update No. 3 (October 2002)

Network Development and MARC Standards Office
Library of Congress

This section is provided for the lists of format changes that accompany each update to the MARC 21 Format for Community Information. It can also be found in Appendix F of the MARC 21 Format for Community Information.

This page documents the changes contained in the third update to the 2000 edition of the MARC 21 Format for Community Information. Update No. 3 (October 2002) includes changes resulting from proposals which were considered by the ALA ALCTS/LITA/RUSA Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information Committee (MARBI) at its meetings in 2002 and by the Canadian Committee on MARC (CCM) at its meetings in 2002.

LC Implementation Plans
Subscribers can anticipate receiving MARC records reflecting these changes in all distribution services no earlier than February 6, 2003.

• New content designators
  • Field
    • 648 - Subject added entry - Chronological term
  • Indicator
    • 052 - 1st indicator (Code source): value 1 (U.S. Dept. of Defense Classification)
  • Subfield codes
    • $j - Date resource modified in 046 (Special coded dates)
      
    • $k - Beginning or single date created in 046 (Special coded dates)
      
    • $l - Ending date created in 046 (Special coded dates)
      
    • $m - Beginning of date valid in 046 (Special coded dates)
      
    • $n - End of date valid in 046 (Special coded dates)
      
    • $2 - Source of date in 046 (Special coded dates)
      
    • $6 - Linkage in 046 (Special coded dates)
      
    • $6 - Linkage in 052 (Geographic classification)

• Obsolete content designators
  • Indicator
    • 052 - 1st indicator (Code source): value 0 (U.S. Dept. Of Defense Classification)
      
      
• Changes in repeatability:
  • Field
    • 046 - Special coded dates: changed from Not repeatable (NR) to Repeatable (R)

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