MARC 21 Format for Holdings Data: 017: Copyright or Legal Deposit Number (Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress)

Agency assigning the number is always given with the copyright or legal deposit number.

Field is repeated when more than one agency has assigned a copyright or legal deposit number.

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■ INDICATORS

Second Indicator - Display constant controller

Controls the generation of a display constant preceding the note.

# - Copyright or legal deposit number

Used to generate the display constant Copyright or deposit number:.


017	##$aPA 1-060-815$bU.S. Copyright Office

8 - No display constant generated

■ SUBFIELD CODES

$a - Copyright or legal deposit number

Copyright registration number or the legal deposit number. In the United States, the U.S. copyright number is composed of one or more alphabetic characters indicating the class under which the registration is made (second and third letters may be added for statistical analysis), and a sequentially assigned number.


017	##$aEU781596$bU.S. Copyright Office
017	##$aDL 80-0-1524$bBibliothèque nationale du Québec
017	##$aPA1116341$bU.S. Copyright Office$d20020703 [Display: Copyright or deposit number: PA1116341]

Multiple numbers assigned by the same agency are each recorded in a separate subfield $a, followed by a single subfield $b.


017	##$aPA52-758 (English subtitled version)$aPA52-759 (English language dubbed version)$bU.S. Copyright Office
017	##$aVA65-843$aVA65-845 $aVA65-849$bU.S. Copyright Office

Multiple numbers assigned by different agencies are each recorded in a separate field 017.


017	##$aF31401$aF31405 $bU.S. Copyright Office
017	##$aDL1377-1984 $bBibliothèque nationale de France [Item was registered for copyright in the U.S. and France.]

$b - Assigning agency

Name of the agency assigning the number. Subfield $b must always be present whenever field 017 is used.


017	##$aA68778$bU.S. Copyright Office

For fields containing more than one subfield $a, subfield $b is recorded only once after the last subfield $a.


017	##$aVA26037$aVA26038 $aVA26039$aVA26040$aVA26041 $aVA26042$aVA26043$bU.S. Copyright Office

$d - Date

Date on which the copyright registration number was assigned. Formatted according to ISO 8601 (yyyymmdd).


017	##$aPA111636$bU.S. Copyright Office$d19990828

$i - Display text

Text to be displayed when the display constant associated with second indicator value # is inadequate. When this subfield is present, the second indicator contains value 8 (No display constant generated). Subfield $i precedes subfield $a at the beginning of the field.


017	#8$iSuppl. reg.:$aPA001116455$bU.S. Copyright Office$d20020725 [Display: Suppl reg.: PA001116455]
017	#8$iOrig. reg.$aJP732$bU.S. Copyright Office$d19510504 [Display: Orig. reg.: JP732]

$z - Canceled/invalid copyright or legal deposit number

Each canceled/invalid number is contained in a separate occurrence of subfield $z. If no valid number exists, subfield $z may be used alone in the record.


017	##$aM44120-2006 $zM444120-2006 [Resource has both correct and invalid deposit numbers]

$2 - Source

Code that identifies the source of the copyright registration (or legal deposit) number in subfield $a.

Code from: Copyright and Legal Deposit Number Source Codes.


017	##$a99-263$bBwMiBKP $2[code for the registration list of the Belorussian Book Chamber]
017	##$a99-7356$bRuMoRKP $2[code for the registration list of the Russian Book Chamber]

017 - Copyright or Legal Deposit Number (R)

FIELD DEFINITION AND SCOPE

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■ INDICATORS

■ SUBFIELD CODES

INPUT CONVENTIONS


Subfield Codes
$a - Copyright or legal deposit number (R) $b - Assigning agency (NR) $d - Date (NR) $i - Display text (NR)	$z - Canceled/invalid copyright or legal deposit number (R) $2 - Source (NR) $6 - Linkage (NR) $8 - Field link and sequence number (R)