411 Series Statement/Added Entry - Meeting Name (American)

Field definition and scope:

Field 411 is used in the United States to support retrospective conversion of Pre-AACR 2 cataloging records. It was made obsolete in CAN/MARC in 1988.

This field contains an author/title series statement in which the author portion is a conference/meeting name or a pronoun representing it that refers back to a 111 field. Field 411 is both a series statement and a series added entry. When a 411 field is present, a corresponding 811 field is not used, since it would duplicate the 411 field. Field 411 is not used for AACR 2 formulated series statements as such statements are in title form.

With the introduction of AACR 2, fields 400, 410, and 411 are no longer used for any type of material; thus, only the 440 and 490 fields are currently used by agencies following these rules. These fields may occur in pre-AACR 2 bibliographic records.

The National level record requirement for this field is Mandatory if applicable.

Field 411 is repeatable.

Guidelines for applying content designators:

The content designators identify the subelements occurring in meeting name fields constructed according to the generally accepted cataloging and thesaurus-building rules [e.g., Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR 2), Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)].

A named meeting that is entered under a corporate name is contained in the X10 fields. Corporate names that include such words as conference or congress are also contained in the X10 fields. For example, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, a professional group, is a corporate name.

For indicator and subfield code definitions and examples, National-level (NLR) and Minimal-level (MLR) record requirements, and designator repeatability, see table below:

Position	Description	NLR	MLR	Repeatability
Field 411	Series Statement/Added Entry - Meeting Name	A	O	R
Indicator:
First	Type of meeting name entry element	M
0	Inverted name	A
1	Jurisdiction name	A
2	Name in direct order	A

Second	Pronoun represents main entry	M
0	Main entry not represented by pronoun	A
1	Main entry represented by pronoun	A

Subfield code:
$a	Meeting name or jurisdiction name as entry element	M	O	NR
$c	Location of meeting	A	O	NR
$d	Date of meeting	A	O	NR
$e	Subordinate unit	A	O	R
$f	Date of a work	A	O	NR
$g	Miscellaneous information	A	O	NR
$k	Form subheading	A	O	R
$l	Language of a work	A	O	NR
$n	Number of part/section/meeting	A	O	R
$p	Name of part/section of a work	A	O	R
$q	Name of meeting following jurisdiction name entry element	A	O	NR
$t	Title of a work	M	O	NR
$u	Affiliation	O	O	NR
$v	Volume number/sequential designation	A	O	NR
$x	International Standard Serial Number	A	O	NR
$4	Relator code	O	O	R
$6	Linkage	A	O	NR
$8	Field link and sequence number	O	O	R

See: Examples for this field.

Input conventions:

Ambiguous headings (what is considered a "meeting" name)

Punctuation

Spacing

Display constant

Initial articles (includes information on diacritics or special characters)

MARC 21 conversion to current fields:

If indicator 2 is 0:

4XX indicator 1 and all subfields except subfield $x convert to 8XX with same indicator 1 value and same subfields,

and 4XX $t, $v, $x are also copied to 490 $a, $v, $x, respectively; 490 indicator 1 is set to 1.

If indicator 2 is 1:

4XX indicator 1 and all subfields except subfields $a and $x convert to 8XX with same indicator 1 value and same subfields,

and all 1XX subfields are copied into the same 8XX, preceding the subfields from the 4XX field,

and 4XX $t, $v, $x are also copied to 490 $a, $v, $x, respectively; 490 indicator 1 is set to 1.

Content designator history:

Fields 400, 410, and 411 are not used for AACR 2 formulated series statements. They may occur in pre-AACR 2 bibliographic records.

Subfields $a - Meeting name or jurisdiction name as entry element [expanded]

$q - Name of meeting following jurisdiction name entry element [defined]

The name of a meeting entered under a jurisdiction name was not separately subfield coded prior to the definition of subfield $q in 1972. At the same time, subfield $a was expanded to include a jurisdiction name as entry element.

Subfields $b - Number [obsolete]

$n - Number of part/section/meeting [defined]

$p - Name of part/section of a work [redefined]

In 1979, subfield $n was defined for numbered parts/sections and subfield $p (Part) was redefined to include only named parts/sections. Prior to that change, both the number and the name of a part were contained in one $p subfield.

In 1980, the definition of subfield $n was expanded to include meeting numbers and subfield $b was made obsolete.

411 Series Statement/Added Entry - Meeting Name

In 1999, field 411 became local to the United States since it was obsolete in the CAN/MARC format. In MARC 21, it is described in Appendix H: Local Data Elements.