Organization of this Document
The USMARC Format for Holdings Data consists of a Summary Statement of Content Designators followed by a detailed presentation of each content designator. Following the descriptions of the Leader and the Directory, the detailed presentations for each variable field are arranged in field tag order. The variable data fields are presented in the following groupings in order to bring together fields that serve related functions:
0XX Numbers and Codes (Fields 010-035)
583-84X Notes (Fields 583 and 84X)
Holdings Data (853-878 General Information ; 853-855 Captions and Pattern , General Information and individual fields; 863-865 Enumeration and Chronology , General Information and individual fields; 866-868 Textual Holdings , General Information and individual fields; 876-878 Item Information , General Information and individual fields)
The four appendixes provide a comparison of the USMARC Format for Holdings Data content designators and the data elements of Z39.44 and Z39.57 (Appendix A) , full holdings record examples (Appendix B) , and a glossary (Appendix C) .
Components of the Detailed Descriptions
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