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666 - General Explanatory Reference-Name (NR)


MARC 21 Authority - Concise
2007

Note in a reference record that explains how names having a common characteristic (e.g., surnames with separately written prefixes) are entered in a file.

Indicators
First - Undefined
# - Undefined
Second - Undefined
# - Undefined
Subfield Codes
$a - General explanatory reference (R)
$6 - Linkage (NR)
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.
$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.
Examples
666 ##$aNames beginning with this prefix are also entered under La (e.g., La Bretèque, Pierre de) or under the name following the prefix (e.g., Torre, Marie de la)
666 ##$aNames of corporate bodies beginning with this word are entered under the next word in the name.

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