411 Series Statement/Added Entry - Meeting Name (R) (Variable Data Field) (American Local Data Element)
-- USA only --
Field 411 is used in the United States to support retrospective conversion of Pre-AACR 2 cataloging records. It was made obsolete in CAN/MARC in 1988.
This field contains an author/title series statement in which the author portion is a conference/meeting name or a pronoun representing it that refers back to a 111 field . Field 411 is both a series statement and a series added entry. When a 411 field is present, a corresponding 811 field is not used, since it would duplicate the 411 field. Field 411 is not used for AACR 2 formulated series statements as such statements are in title form.
NOTE: With the introduction of AACR 2, fields 400, 410, and 411 are no longer used for any type of material; thus, only the 440 and 490 fields are currently used by agencies following these rules. These fields may occur in pre-AACR 2 bibliographic records.
The National level record requirement for this field is Mandatory if applicable.
Field 411 is repeatable .
Guidelines for applying content designators:
The content designators identify the subelements occurring in meeting name fields constructed according to the generally accepted cataloging and thesaurus-building rules [e.g., Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR 2 ), Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)].
A named meeting that is entered under a corporate name is contained in the X10 fields . Corporate names that include such words as conference or congress are also contained in the X10 fields. For example, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, a professional group, is a corporate name.
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 411 | Series Statement/Added Entry - Meeting Name | A | O | R |
Indicator: | ||||
First | M | |||
0 | A | |||
1 | A | |||
2 | A | |||
Second | M | |||
0 | A | |||
1 | A | |||
Subfield code: | ||||
$a | M | O | NR | |
$c | A | O | NR | |
$d | A | O | NR | |
$e | A | O | R | |
$f | A | O | NR | |
$g | A | O | NR | |
$k | A | O | R | |
$l | A | O | NR | |
$n | A | O | R | |
$p | A | O | R | |
$q | A | O | NR | |
$t | M | O | NR | |
$u | O | O | NR | |
$v | A | O | NR | |
$x | A | O | NR | |
$4 | O | O | R | |
$6 | A | O | NR | |
$8 | O | O | R |
See: Examples for this field.
Ambiguous headings
(what is considered a "meeting" name)
Initial articles
(includes information on diacritics or special characters)
MARC 21 conversion to current fields:
If indicator 2 is 0:
4XX indicator 1 and all subfields except subfield $x convert to 8XX with same indicator 1 value and same subfields,
and 4XX $t, $v, $x are also copied to 490 $a, $v, $x, respectively; 490 indicator 1 is set to 1.
If indicator 2 is 1:
4XX indicator 1 and all subfields except subfields $a and $x convert to 8XX with same indicator 1 value and same subfields,
and all 1XX subfields are copied into the same 8XX, preceeding the subfields from the 4XX field,
and 4XX $t, $v, $x are also copied to 490 $a, $v, $x, respectively; 490 indicator 1 is set to 1.
Fields 400, 410, and 411 are not used for AACR 2
formulated series statements. They may occur in pre-AACR 2 bibliographic records.
Subfields $a - Meeting name or jurisdiction name as entry element [expanded]
$q - Name of meeting following jurisdiction name entry element [defined]
The name of a meeting entered under a jurisdiction name was not separately subfield coded prior to the definition of subfield $q in 1972. At the same time, subfield $a was expanded to include a jurisdiction name as entry element.
Subfields $b - Number [obsolete]
$n - Number of part/section/meeting [defined]
$p - Name of part/section of a work [redefined]
In 1979, subfield $n was defined for numbered parts/sections and subfield $p (Part) was redefined to include only named parts/sections. Prior to that change, both the number and the name of a part were contained in one $p subfield.
In 1980, the definition of subfield $n was expanded to include meeting numbers and subfield $b was made obsolete.
411 Series Statement/Added Entry - Meeting Name
In 1999, field 411 became local to the United States since it was obsolete in the CAN/MARC format. In MARC 21, it is described in Appendix H: Local Data Elements .
Related MARC field or document:
X11 Meeting Names - General Information
See also:
Appendix H: Local Data Elements
