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571 - Volunteers Note (R)


MARC 21 Community Information - Full
January 2000

First Indicator
Type of information
0 - Opportunities
1 - Services provided

Second Indicator
Undefined
# - Undefined


Subfield Codes
$a - Volunteers note (NR)
$b - Special requirements (R)
$6 - Linkage (NR)
$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)

FIELD DEFINITION AND SCOPE

Information about volunteer opportunities available with the community information entity or whether the entity provides volunteers.

Volunteers are usually expected to go through some training in order to serve and usually have to agree to serve a certain number of hours, etc.


GUIDELINES FOR APPLYING CONTENT DESIGNATORS

INDICATORS

First Indicator - Type of information
Type of volunteer information found in the note.
0 - Opportunities
Note contains volunteer opportunities information. This information in coded form may be contained in field 008/06 (Fixed-Length Data Elements/Volunteer opportunities).
571 0#$aVolunteers accepted, mainly senior citizens.
1 - Services provided
Note contains information that volunteer services are provided. This information in coded form may be contained in field 008/07 (Volunteers provided).If a field is present containing first indicator value 1, it is assumed that there is also a 571 field in the record containing a first indicator value 0.
571 1#$aVolunteer tutors are provided;$bmust be failing math.
Second Indicator - Undefined
Undefined and contains a blank (#).

SUBFIELD CODES

$a - Volunteers note
General information regarding volunteers.
571 0#$aVolunteers accepted.
$b - Special requirements
Special requirements needed in order to be a volunteer or to have a volunteer provided.
571 0#$aVolunteers accepted;$btyping ability required.
571 0#$aVolunteers needed to make phone calls, publish newsletter, and provide child care;$bmust take six session training program.
$6 - Linkage
See the description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.
$8 - Field link and sequence number
See the description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.

INPUT CONVENTIONS

Punctuation - Field 571 ends with a period unless another mark of punctuation is present.

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