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MARC PROPOSAL NO. 2017-07

DATE: December 13, 2016
REVISED:

NAME: Adding Value “No information provided” to the First Indicator of Field 070 in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format

SOURCE: National Library of Finland

SUMMARY: This paper discusses adding value “# = No information provided” to the first indicator (Existence in NAL collection) of field 070 (National Agricultural Library Call Number) in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format.

KEYWORDS: Field 70, 1st indicator (BD); National Agricultural Library Call Number (BD); No information provided, in field 070 (BD)

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STATUS/COMMENTS:
12/13/16 – Made available to the MARC community for discussion.

01/22/17 – Results of MARC Advisory Committee discussion: Approved as submitted.

03/21/17 - Results of MARC Steering Group review - Agreed with the MAC decision.

Proposal No. 2017-07: Adding Value “No information provided” to the First Indicator of Field 070

1. BACKGROUND

Field 070 is currently defined in the Bibliographic format as follows:

• 070 - National Agricultural Library Call Number (R)

• Indicators
  • First - Existence in NAL collection
  • • 0 - Item is in NAL
    • 1 - Item is not in NAL
  • Second - Undefined
    • # - Undefined
      
• Subfield Codes
  • $a - Classification number (R)
  • $b - Item number (NR)
  • $8 - Field link and sequence number (R)

2. DISCUSSION

The National Library of Finland proposes adding value “# = No information provided” to the first indicator of 070. The classification is used in Finnish agricultural libraries.

In most cases, the existence in NAL collection is of no importance. The indexer should not need to consider that. The value “No information provided” is in use now in other classification fields, e.g. 050 (Library of Congress Call Number) and 055 (Classification Numbers Assigned in Canada). The field 070 should be identical.

3. EXAMPLES

Example 1

070 ## $a SB945.A5
245 00 $a Aphids as crop pests / $c edited by Helmut F. van Emden and Richard Harrington.

Example 2

070 ## $a SF251.V5
100 10 $a Virtanen, Artturi I.
245 10 $a Studies of milk produced by cows fed a synthetic diet… / $c Artturi I. Virtanen.

4. BIBFRAME DISCUSSION

No impact on BIBFRAME 2.0.

5. PROPOSED CHANGES

In field 070 (National Agricultural Library Call Number) of the MARC 21 Bibliographic format, define the following value in the first indicator (Existence in NAL collection):

# - No information provided
Used for all call numbers assigned by institutions other than NAL.

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