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246 - Varying Form of Title (R)

MARC 21 Community Information - concise

October 2014

Variant title of the event, program, etc. present in field 245 (Title). Variant forms of names recorded in 1XX (Primary Names), 6XX (Subject Entries,) and 7XX (Added Entries) are not recorded in this field. Access to these variants is usually provided in MARC authority record 4XX (See From Tracing) fields.

Indicators

First - Undefined: # - Undefined
Second - Type of title: 0 - Portion of title; 1 - Parallel title; 2 - Acronym; 3 - Other title

Subfield Codes

$a - Title proper/short title (NR)

$b - Remainder of title (NR)

$f - Date or sequential designation (NR): Dates or sequential designations, such as those that indicate when the variant title was used.

$g - Miscellaneous information (R): Miscellaneous information that is not more appropriately recorded in another subfield, such as the phrase varies slightly, enclosed in parentheses.

$h - Medium (NR)

$n - Number of part/section of the title (R)

$p - Name of part/section of the title (R)

$6 - Linkage (NR): See the description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.

$8 - Field link and sequence number (R): See the description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.

Examples

246

#0$aArts Downcast

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(10/20/2014)