Types of Headings (Introduction)
In a MARC authority record, a heading is the content of a 1XX, 4XX, or 5XX field that documents the form of heading used for indexing and retrieval or organizational purposes in a file. Two types of headings are defined in the authorities format:
Established heading:
A heading that is authorized for use in other MARC records as a
main entry (1XX), added entry (700-730), or series added entry (440 or
800-830) field or as the lead element in a subject access (600-655; 654-657)
field. In authority records,
established headings are used in fields 100-155 (headings) and fields
500-555 (tracings) for established heading (008/09,
Kind of record, code a or
f) records.
Unestablished
heading: A heading that is not
authorized for use in other MARC records as the lead element of a main,
added, series, or subject access field. An unestablished heading
may be a reference to a variant form of the established heading, a form
of the heading used only for authority file organizational purposes, or
a subject subdivision that is authorized for use with an established heading
in an extended subject heading. In
authority records, unestablished headings are used in the 1XX (heading)
and 4XX (tracing) fields of reference (008/09, code b
or c), subdivision (code d), reference and subdivision (code
g), and node label (code e) records. An unestablished
heading may also be used in the 4XX tracing fields of established heading
(code a or f)
records.
Headings may be names, name/title combinations, uniform titles, chronological terms, topical terms, genre/form terms, subdivisions, extended subject headings, or node labels.
Name
heading - A heading that is a personal, corporate, meeting, or
jurisdiction (including geographic) name.
Name/title
heading - A heading consisting of both name and title portions.
The name portion contains a personal, corporate, meeting, or jurisdiction
name. The title portion contains the title by which an item or a
series is identified for cataloging purposes and may be a uniform or conventional
title, a title page title of a work, or a series title.
Uniform
title heading - A heading consisting of the title by which an item
or a series is identified for cataloging purposes when the title is not
entered under a personal, corporate, meeting, or jurisdiction name in
a name/title heading construction.
Chronological
term heading - A heading consisting of a chronological subject
term.
Topical
term heading - A heading consisting of a topical subject term.
Genre/form
term heading - A heading consisting of a genre/form subject term.
Subdivision
heading - A heading consisting of a general (topical or language),
form, geographic, or chronological subject subdivision term. An
extended subdivision
heading contains more than one subject subdivision term (subfields
$v, $x, $y, and $z).
Extended
subject heading - A name, name/title, uniform title, topical term,
or genre/form term heading that includes one or more general, form, geographic,
or chronological subject subdivision terms (subfields $v, $x, $y, or $z).
Node
label heading - A heading consisting of a term used in the systematic
section of a thesaurus to indicate the logical basis on which a category
is divided.
Related MARC fields or documents:
See also: