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853 - Captions and Pattern-Basic Bibliographic Unit (R)


MARC 21 Holdings - Full
January 2000

FIELD DEFINITION AND SCOPE

Caption that is appropriate for each level of enumeration and chronology that is present in a related 863 Enumeration and Chronology Basic Bibliographic Unit field and codes that define the publication pattern of the item. A display may be generated from the contents of field 853 and the related 863 field(s) to which it is linked by subfield $8 (Field link and sequence number).

Guidelines for applying the content designators defined for field 853 are given in the Caption and Pattern Fields--General Information section.

General description of the four types of holdings data fields, their relationship to each other, and the repeatability of each is given in the 853-878 Holdings Data-General Information section.


GUIDELINES FOR APPLYING CONTENT DESIGNATORS

EXAMPLES

853 03$81$aBd.$i(year)
853 00$81$av.$bno.$u12$i(year)$j(month)$tcop.
853 10$81$av.$bno.$u12$vr$i(year)$j(month)$wm$x01

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