033 Date/Time and Place of an Event

033 Date/Time and Place of an Event (R) (Variable Data Field)

Field definition and scope:

Field 033 contains the formatted date/time and/or coded place of creation, capture, or broadcast associated with an event. Such information includes the date/time and/or place of recording, filming, execution, broadcast or, in the case of a naturally occurring object, of finding. The information recorded in this field may also be recorded in note form in field 518 (Date/Time and Place of an Event Note) .

The National level record requirement for this field is Optional.

Field 033 is 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 033	Date/Time and Place of an Event	O	O	R
Indicator:
First	Type of date in subfield $a	M
#	No date information	A
0	Single date	A
1	Multiple single dates	A
2	Range of dates	A

Second	Type of event	M
#	No information provided	A
0	Capture	A
1	Broadcast	A
2	Finding	A

Subfield code:
$a	Formatted date/time	A	O	R
$b	Geographic classification area code	A	O	R
$c	Geographic classification subarea code	A	O	R
$3	Materials specified	O	O	NR
$6	Linkage	A	O	NR
$8	Field link and sequence number	O	O	R

Input conventions:

Field repeatability

Punctuation

Content designator history:

Second Indicator - Type of event [defined]: In 1989, the second indicator was given its present definition. Records created prior to this change may contain a # (blank) meaning undefined.

Related MARC fields or documents:

052 Geographic Classification

518 Date/Time and Place of an Event Note

880 Alternate Graphic Representation

Geographic Cutters

Library of Congress Classification--Class G

See also:

0XX Numbers and Codes

Variable Data Fields