853 - 878 Holdings Data - General Information (Variable Data Fields)
Definition and Scope:
Four related sets of fields are defined for recording information about the items actually held by the reporting organization.
Captions and Pattern
Enumeration and Chronology
Textual Holdings
Item Information
These holdings data fields accommodate three basic types of items: single-part items (Leader/06, Type of record, code x) , multipart items (Leader/06, code v) , and serial items (Leader/06, code y) .
Within each set of fields, separate fields are defined for three categories:
Basic Bibliographic Unit
Supplementary Material
Indexes
A basic bibliographic unit is an entity for which a bibliographic description exists, for example, a serial, a one-volume book, a multivolume encyclopedia. This category includes an index or supplementary material for which a separate bibliographic record exists. The supplementary material and indexes categories are used for supplementary materials and indexes for which the cataloging is included in the catalog record for the basic bibliographic unit, that is, no separate cataloging record exists.
Subfield $8 (Link and sequence number) is defined to link related 853-878 Holdings Data Fields . At its fullest, subfield $8 is structured as follows:
<linking number>.<sequence number>
Only the linking number portion is used in 853-855 Caption and Pattern and 866-868 Textual Holdings fields. In 863-865 Enumeration and Chronology and 876-878 Item Information fields, subfield $8 contains both a linking number and a sequence number. The description for each application of subfield $8 is given in the General Information section for each set of holdings data fields.
Captions and Pattern
(fields 853-855)
Enumeration and Chronology
(fields 863-865)
Textual Holdings
(fields 866-868)
Item Information
(fields 876-878)
Compressibility and Expandability
Content Designator History:
$8 Link and sequence number
Prior to 1991 Link and sequence number was contained in subfield $6. In 1991 it was deleted from the format and subfield $8 was defined for Link and sequence number.
853-855 Captions and Pattern - General Information
856 Electronic Location and Access (R)
863-865 Enumeration and Chronology - General Information
866-868 Textual Holdings - General Information
876-878 Item Information - General Information
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