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863 - Enumeration and Chronology-Basic Bibliographic Unit (R)


MARC 21 Holdings - Full
October 2004

FIELD DEFINITION AND SCOPE

Enumeration and chronology of a basic bibliographic unit in the holdings of the reporting organization. A display may be generated from the contents of field 863 and the related field 853 (Captions and Pattern--Basic Bibliographic Unit) to which it is linked by subfield $8 (Field link and sequence number).

Guidelines for applying the content designators defined for field 863 are given in the 863-865 Enumeration and Chronology Fields--General Information section.

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


GUIDELINES FOR APPLYING CONTENT DESIGNATORS

EXAMPLES

853 20$81$ano$i(year)$j(month)$wm$ycm08/09
863 40$81.1$a29-37$i1983$j03-12
863 40$81.2$a38-48$i1984
863 40$81.3$a49-50$i1985$j01-02$zCeased publ. with issue no. 50
853 20$81$a(year)$b(month)$u12$vr$wm$x01
863 40$81.1$a1989$b02-05

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