MARC 110 Heading Corporate Name

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MARC field 110 in the authority and bibliographic formats contains information on formulating a corporate name used as a main entry in a bibliographic record. Since the same instructions apply for formulating access points of persons regardless of where it is used in a bibliographic record, this article covers MARC fields 610, 710, and 810.

Commonly-used tags

First Indicator - Type of corporate name entry element 

0 - Inverted name
1 - Jurisdiction name
3 - Name in direct order

Second indicator 

Undefined

Subfields 

ǂa - Corporate or jurisdiction name (NR)
ǂb - Subordinate unit (NR)
ǂc - Location of meeting (R)
ǂd - Date of meeting or treaty signing (NR)
ǂe - Relator term (R)
ǂf - Date of a work (NR)

Policy and formulation

Basic formulation of corporate names

  • When establishing firms as corporate name headings, default to including the location within the heading for future disambiguation. Ex:

110 2 Rock's Mills Press (Oakville, Ont.)
110 2 Presbyterian Press (Accra, Ghana)

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