541 Immediate Source of Acquisition Note

Field definition and scope:

Field 541 contains information about the immediate source of acquisition of the described materials and is used primarily with original or historical items, or other archival collections. The original source of acquisition is recorded in field 561 (Ownership and Custodial History) (previously named Provenance Note).

Field 541 is repeated when recording the acquisition of additional material in a collection. An additional field 541 is made for each addition. This field is identical to field 541 (Immediate Source of Acquisition Note) defined in the MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data.

Field 541 is repeatable.

Guidelines for applying content designators:, see table below:

For indicator and subfield code definitions and examples, and designator repeatability, see table below:

Position	Description	Repeatability
Field 541	Immediate Source of Acquisition Note	R
Indicator:
First	Privacy
#	No information provided
0	Private
1	Not private

Second	Undefined; contains a blank

Subfield code:
$a	Source of acquisition	NR
$b	Address	NR
$c	Method of acquisition	NR
$d	Date of acquisition	NR
$e	Accession number	NR
$f	Owner	NR
$h	Purchase price	NR
$n	Extent	R
$o	Type of unit	R
$3	Materials specified	NR
$5	Institution to which field applies	NR
$6	Linkage	NR
$8	Field link and sequence number	R

Input conventions:

Punctuation

Content designator history:

First Indicator - Privacy [new, 2004]