044 Country of Publishing/Producing Entity Code (NR) (Variable Data Field)
Field 044 contains a two- or three-character MARC code for the country of the publishing or producing entity when field 008/15-17 (Place of publication, production, or execution) is insufficient to convey full information for an item published or produced in more than one country. The source of the code in subfield $a is MARC Code List for Countries that is maintained by the Library of Congress. A locally defined subentity code may be recorded in subfield $b when desired to indicate a subentity below the country level with its source indicated in subfield $2 . Subfield $c may be used to include subentity codes from the ISO 3166-2 list.
This field is used in conjunction with 008/15-17 (Place of publication, production, or execution) . The code in 008/15-17 is recorded in the first occurrence of subfield $a of field 044.
The National level record requirement for this field is Optional; for visual materials it is Mandatory if applicable.
Field 044 is NOT repeatable .
Guidelines for applying content designators:
For indicator and subfield code definitions and examples, National-level (NLR) and Minimal-level (MLR) record requirements , and designator repeatability , see table below:
| Position | Description |
NLR |
MLR |
Repeatability |
| Field 044 | Country of Publishing/Producing
Entity Code
for Visual materials |
O A |
O |
NR |
| Indicator: | ||||
| First | Undefined; contains a blank |
M |
||
| Second | Undefined; contains a blank |
M |
||
| Subfield code: | ||||
| $a | Country of publishing/producing entity code |
M |
O |
R |
| $b | Local subentity code |
O |
O |
R |
| $c | ISO subentity code |
O |
O |
R |
| $2 | Source of local subentity code |
A |
O |
R |
| $6 | Linkage |
A |
O |
NR |
| $8 | Field link and sequence number |
O |
O |
R |
Related MARC fields or documents:
008/15-17 Place of publication, production, or execution
ISO 3166-2: Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions: Part 2, Country subdivision codes
MARC Code List for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions
See also:
