246 - Varying Form of Title (R)
MARC 21 Community Information - Concise
2007
Variant title of the event, program, etc. present in field 245 (Title). Variant forms
of names recorded in 1XX (Primary Names), 6XX (Subject Entries,) and 7XX (Added Entries)
are not recorded in this field. Access to these variants is usually provided in MARC
authority record 4XX (See From Tracing) fields.
Indicators
First - Undefined
# - Undefined
Second - Type of title
0 - Portion of title
1 - Parallel title
2 - Acronym
3 - Other title
Subfield Codes
$a - Title proper/short title (NR)
$b - Remainder of title (NR)
$f - Date or sequential designation (NR)
Dates or sequential designations, such as those that indicate when the variant
title was used.
$g - Miscellaneous information (NR)
Miscellaneous information that is not more appropriately recorded in another
subfield, such as the phrase varies slightly, enclosed in
parentheses.
$h - Medium (NR)
$n - Number of part/section of the title (R)
$p - Name of part/section of the title (R)
$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)
Example