844  Name of Unit (NR)  (Variable Data Field)

Field definition and scope:

Field 844 contains the name or title appearing on an item.  The item may be a basic bibliographic unit, supplementary material, or an index.  The name of the unit consists of its bibliographic title or a supplied designation describing it.  A supplement or index designation used as a caption is contained in fields 853-855 (Captions and Pattern), subfield $a-$h (Enumeration captions).

Field 844 is NOT repeatable.

Guidelines for applying content designators:

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

See:  Examples for this field.

Input conventions:

Display constant

Related MARC field or document:

853-855  Captions and Pattern - General Information

See also:

3XX, 5XX, 84X  Note Fields

Variable Data Fields