Appendix G - Format Changes

MARC 21 Bibliographic

September 2012

This section is provided for the lists of format changes that accompany each update to the MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data.

MARC 21 FORMAT FOR BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATA

FORMAT CHANGE LIST

Update No. 15, September 2012

This page documents the changes contained in the fifteenth update to the 1999 edition of the MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data. Update No. 15 (September 2012) includes changes resulting from proposals that were considered by the MARC 21 community during June 2012.

■ New content designators:

Codes

Code k - Vocal score in Music 008/20 (Format of music)

Code p - Metadata provenance in Appendix A (Control Subfields)

Subfields

$q Qualifying information (R) in 028 (Publisher Number)

Fields

883 Machine-generated Metadata Provenance (R)

■ Changes in content designator names and definitions:

Codes

Code c - Accompaniment reduced for keyboard redescribed in
Music 008/20 (Format of music)

Code d - Voice score changed to Voice score with accompaniment omitted
and redescribed in Music 008/20 (Format of music)

Code h - Chorus score redescribed in Music 008/20 (Format of music)

UPDATE 15 LOCAL PRINT GUIDE

The following sections and fields were created/changed in Update No. 15 and should be printed to keep a print copy of the format up-to-date. Changes appear in red.

The following fields do not have technical changes but contain editorial modifications (in red):