MARC 6XX Subject Access Fields - General Information: Difference between revisions

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Revision as of 13:56, 4 December 2017

MARC fields 6XX in the bibliographic format contains subject access entries and terms. This article gives general information about subject access fields. These fields are repeatable.

Basic use and searching

Basic use

  • [Brief instructions]

Searching

  • [indicate whether the field is searchable in Hamnet drop-downs, or only in the staff module and Command Line search]

Commonly-used tags

Indicators
1st indicator – [label]
<use left space to enumerate>
2nd indicator – Thesaurus

0 - Library of Congress Subject Headings 1 - LC subject headings for children's literature 2 - Medical Subject Headings 3 - National Agricultural Library subject authority file 4 - Source not specified 5 - Canadian Subject Headings 6 - Répertoire de vedettes-matière 7 - Source specified in subfield $2

Subfield delimiters

ǂa 
ǂb 
ǂc
ǂ2 - Source of subject heading or term

Policy and formulation

  • For satires or other humorous material, use the $v Humor in addition to the 655 Satires.

Examples

600 1 0 Laud, William, $d 1573-164 $x Public opinion $v Humor $v Early works to 1800.
655 _ 7  Satires (document genre) $2 aat

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