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040 - Cataloging Source (NR)


MARC 21 Bibliographic - Concise
2007

MARC code for or the name of the organization(s) that created the original bibliographic record, assigned MARC content designation and transcribed the record into machine-readable form, or modified (except for the addition of holdings symbols) an existing MARC record. These data and the code in 008/39 (Cataloging source) specify the parties responsible for the bibliographic record. See Appendix I: Organization Code Sources for a listing of sources used in MARC 21 records.

Indicators
First - Undefined
# - Undefined
Second - Undefined
# - Undefined
Subfield Codes
$a - Original cataloging agency (NR)
$b - Language of cataloging (NR)
MARC code for the language of cataloging in the record. Code from: MARC Code List for Languages.
$c - Transcribing agency (NR)
$d - Modifying agency (R)
$e - Description conventions (NR)
MARC code for or the title of the description rules used in creating the record when more information than is provided by the code in Leader/18 (Descriptive cataloging form) is needed.
Code from: MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions.
$6 - Linkage (NR)
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.
$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.
Examples
040 ##$aMt$cMt[Cataloging produced and input by the Montana State Library.]
040 ##$aDLC$cDLC[Cataloging produced and input by the Library of Congress.]
040 ##$aCaOTY$beng$cCaOTY[Cataloging produced and input by York University.]
040 ##$aCaQQLA$bfre$cCaOONL[Record created by Laval University in French and transcribed by the Library and Archives Canada.]
040 ##$aDLC$cCtY$dMH[LC cataloging transcribed by Yale University, subsequently modified by Harvard University.]
040 ##$aDCE-C$cDNTIS$dWU-D$dMiAnI[Cataloged by the U.S. Bureau of the Census, Customer Services Branch; transcribed by the National Technical Information Service; modified by the University of Wisconsin Data Program and Library Service and by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.]
040 ##$aCSt-H$cCSt-H$eappm[Hoover Institution cataloging, transcribed by Hoover and illustrating the optional use of subfield $e citing cataloging based on Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts]
040 ##$aDNA$cCtY$dCtY$eNARS Staff Bulletin No. 16[National Archives and Records Service cataloging, transcribed and modified by Yale University, following description conventions in NARS Staff Bulletin No. 16.]

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