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TECHNICAL NOTICE (February 21, 2014)

Additions to the MARC Code List for Relators

Network Development and MARC Standards Office
Library of Congress

The codes listed below have been added to the MARC Code List for Relators and to the Library of Congress Linked Data Service.

The codes should not be used in exchange records until 30 days after the date of this notice to provide implementers time to include newly-defined codes in any validation tables.

• Additions:
  • dgs - Degree supervisor
  • med - Medium
  • mtk - Minute taker
  • vac - Voice actor
  • wst - Writer of supplementary textual content
  • win - Writer of introduction
  • wpr - Writer of preface

• Changes:
  • orm - Organizer
    (Term changed from “Organizer of meeting”; definition broadened)

The Library of Congress, Network Development and MARC Standards Office provides information about existing and newly assigned MARC codes on its Web site (www.loc.gov/marc/) as well as notices such as these to subscribers to its MARC listserv ([email protected]).

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