240 Uniform Title

Codes

First indicator - Uniform title printed or displayed

0 Not printed or displayed

1 Printed or displayed

Second indicator - Nonfiling characters

0 No nonfiling characters present

1-9 Number of nonfiling characters present

Subfield codes:

a Uniform title (NR)

d Date of treaty signing (R)

f Date of a work (NR)

g Miscellaneous information (R)

h Medium (NR)

k Form subheading (R)

l Language of a work (NR)

m Medium of performance for music (R)

n Number of part/section of a work (R)

o Arranged statement for music (NR)

p Name of part/section of a work (R)

r Key for music (NR)

s Version (NR)

0 Authority record control number or standard number (R)

6 Linkage (NR)

8 Field link and sequence number (R)

NOTE: See MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data (240 Uniform Title) for code definitions not given below.

Description/Instructions

Field 240 contains uniform titles that are added to serials entered under a name heading (fields 100, 110, 111). The name heading and uniform title together comprise the main entry for the serial. Uniform titles that are added to serials entered under title are given in field 130.

Uniform titles, whether given in field 240 or 130, are of two types:

1) those that bring together all entries for the same work when different manifestations (e.g., translations, editions) have appeared under different titles, or that bring together certain types of legal publications, e.g., treaties, codes, etc.

110 1# United States.

240 10 Treaties, etc.

245 10 United States treaties and other international agreements.

2) those that differentiate two works entered under the same name and same title proper (LCRI 25.5B).

TITLE A

110 1# South Carolina. $b Dept. of Agriculture.

240 10 Report of the Department of Agriculture of South Carolina to the General Assembly for the fiscal year (1961)

245 10 Report of the Department of Agriculture of South Carolina to the General Assembly for the fiscal year.

362 0# 1960-61-1967-68.

TITLE B

110 1# South Carolina. $b Dept. of Agriculture.

245 10 Annual report for the fiscal year.

362 0# 1968-69-1969-70.

TITLE C

110 1# South Carolina. $b Dept. of Agriculture.

240 10 Report of the Department of Agriculture of South Carolina to the General Assembly for the fiscal year (1971)

245 10 Report of the Department of Agriculture of South Carolina to the General Assembly for the fiscal year.

362 0# 1970-71-1980-81.

Editing instructions

1. According to CONSER policy, do not input initial articles.

2. Do not input brackets; these may be supplied on output by a user's print program.

3. Do not input terminal punctuation unless the field ends with an abbreviation or a closing parenthesis.

4. When transcribing a uniform title constructed according to LCRI 25.5B, use the punctuation appropriate to field 245 (e.g., use a comma between subfields $n and $p). Precede all other elements of the uniform title with a period.

First indicator - Uniform title printed or displayed

The first indicator regulates the printing of the uniform title in brackets on printed cards. With the adoption of AACR2, LC decided to print all uniform titles on its cards. According to CONSER practice, therefore, the first indicator is always set to value "1".

Second indicator - Nonfiling characters

The second indicator specifies the number of nonfiling characters to be ignored for sorting purposes. Initial articles are not input according to CONSER policy, therefore, always set the second indicator to value "0".

240 10 Laporan tahunan (1979)

Subfields

For serials, the most commonly used subfields, in input order, are: $a, $n, $p, $l. The remaining subfields are rarely or never used on serial records cataloged according to AACR2.

$a Uniform title.

Include in subfield $a the uniform title or title proper and any parenthetical qualifiers.

240 10 Treaties, etc.

240 10 Annual report (Illustrated ed.)

240 10 IITA annual report (1989)

For most serials, the parenthetical qualifier is a date. This should not be confused with dates appropriate to subfields $d and $f that are unlikely to be used on serial records.

Standardized phrases for legal materials, e.g., "Treaties, etc.", formerly input in subfield $k in the 1XX field, now constitute the uniform title (subfield $a). Do not input these in subfield $k.

$l Language of a work.

Subfield $l is used with translations to provide the language of the title being cataloged. In this case the uniform title (subfield $a) is in the language of the original work. The language of the translation is given in English and is spelled out in full in the form found in the latest edition of the MARC Code List for Languages.

110 1# Argentina. $b Ministerio de Hacienda.

240 10 Anuario. $l English

245 00 Annual report.

$n Number of part/section of a work.

Subfield $n is used according to instructions given in field 245.

$p Name of part/section of a work.

Subfield $p is used according to instructions given in field 245.

$6 Linkage.

For instructions on use of subfield $6, see field 880.

Related fields, etc.

130, 245

240 Uniform Title (MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data)