110 Main Entry - Corporate Name

Codes

First indicator - Type of corporate name entry element

0 Inverted name [Pre-AACR2]

1 Jurisdiction name

2 Name in direct order

Second indicator:

# Undefined

Subfield codes:

a Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element (NR)

b Subordinate unit (R)

c Location of meeting (R)

d Date of meeting or treaty signing (R)

e Relator term (R)

f Date of work (NR) [Pre-AACR2]

g Miscellaneous information (R) [Pre-AACR2]

h Medium (NR) [Obsolete]

k Form subheading (R)

l Language of a work (NR) [Pre-AACR2]

n Number of part/section/meeting (R)

p Name of part/section of work (R) [Pre-AACR2]

s Version (R) [Obsolete]

t Title of a work (NR) [Pre-AACR2]

u Affiliation (NR) [Not used]

0 Authority record control number or standard number (R)

4 Relator code (R)

6 Linkage (NR)

8 Field link and sequence number (R)

NOTE: See MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data (110 Main Entry - Corporate Name) for code definitions not given below.

Description/Instructions

Field 110 contains a corporate body heading used as main entry. A corporate body is defined as any organization or group of persons that is identified by a name and that acts as an entity. Included in this definition are: associations, institutions, business firms, governments and their agencies, ships, churches, and programs. Conferences that are entered subordinate to a corporate body are also recorded in field 110.

First indicator - Type of corporate name entry element

The first indicator signals the type of corporate body name heading. Value "1" is used when the corporate body is a place or a place followed by a name. Value "2" is used with all other names.

Subfields

For serials, the most commonly used subfields, in input order, are: $a, $b. For a description of other subfields defined for this field see Headings - General Information.

$a Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element.

Input the first unit of the name in subfield $a. Qualifiers that are given in parentheses following a corporate name that are not part of the name are included in subfield $a.

110 1# Birmingham (Ala.)

110 2# Bell and Howell.

110 2# Friedrich Witte (Firm)

110 2# Scientific Society of San Antonio (1892-1894)

110 1# Berlin (Germany)

$b Subordinate unit.

110 1# United States. $b Congress.

110 2# American Medical Association. $b Meeting.

110 1# Minnesota. $b Dept. of Natural Resources. $b Hydroelectric Power Division.

Related fields, etc.

Headings - General Information, 111, 610, 710, 810

110 Main Entry - Corporate Name (MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data)