MARC 377 Associated Language: Difference between revisions

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Revision as of 15:07, 14 March 2016

MARC field 377 in the authority and bibliographic formats contains codes for languages associated with persons, corporate bodies, families, works, and expressions. This field is repeatable.

Commonly-used tags

Indicators
1st: Undefined

2nd:
MARC language code (indicator left blank)

Subfield delimiters
ǂa Language code (R)

Policy and formulation

For authority data, give MARC language codes for languages used by the entity described. For bibliographic data, give codes for languages present in the work or expression being cataloged.

For authority data, only assign language codes for entities responsible for textual content. Do not use this field for artists or printmakers, for example.

Examples

377  eng ǂa ita

External links