MARC 375 Gender

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MARC field 375 in the authority format contains information about gender of a person, including dates applicable.

Commonly-used tags

Indicators

Undefined

Subfields

ǂa - Gender (R)
ǂs - Start period (NR)
ǂt - End period (NR)
ǂu - Uniform Resource Identifier (R)
ǂv - Source of information (R)
ǂ2 - Source of term (NR)

Policy and formulation

  • RDA-authorized terms are
female
male
not known
  • Gender can be inferred from given names. For example, assume that Alice is female and John is male.
  • Refrain from making assumptions about ambiguous given names (Robin, Pat, Leslie), or if you are in doubt about its gender-association in a particular language (Sille, Chunhua), unless you have firm evidence. In that case, make sure the evidence is presented in field 670. Example:
375 female
670  Wikipedia viewed 23 January 2015  ǂb (Michael Learned (born April 9, 1939) is an American actress, best known for her role as Olivia Walton in the long-running CBS drama series, The Waltons)
  • If none of the authorized terms apply, choose a term from LCSH and identify the source in ǂ2
375 Transgender people ǂ2 lcsh


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