MARC 520 Summary, Etc.

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MARC field 520 in the bibliographic format contains information that describes the scope and general contents of the cataloged materials. This could be a summary, abstract, annotation, review, or only a phrase describing the material.

Policy and formulation

Common tagging

First Indicator 

# - Summary
2 - Scope and content

Subfield Codes 

ǂa - Summary, etc. (NR)
ǂc - Assigning source (NR)
ǂu - Uniform Resource Identifier (R)

=Acquisitions Night labels

If readily available, copy and paste the text of Acquisitions Night labels into field 520. First indicator blank; add ǂc DFo at end.