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257 - Country of Producing Entity (R)


MARC 21 Bibliographic - Full
October 2009

First Indicator
Undefined
# - Undefined

Second Indicator
Undefined
# - Undefined


Subfield Codes
$a - Country of producing entity (R)
$2 - Source (NR)
$6 - Linkage (NR)
$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)

FIELD DEFINITION AND SCOPE

Name or abbreviation of the name of the country(s) where the principal offices of the producing entity(s) of an archival resource are located.

Entity(s) in this instance is the production company(s) or individual that is named in the statement of responsibility (subfield $c) of field 245 (Title Statement).


GUIDELINES FOR APPLYING CONTENT DESIGNATORS

INDICATORS

SUBFIELD CODES

$a - Country of producing entity
Name or abbreviation of the name of the country(s) where the principal offices of the producing entity(s) are located.
May contain the abbreviation [S.l.] when the country is unknown.
257 ##$aU.S.
257 ##$a[S.l.].
257 ##$aItaly ; France.
500 ##$aAvers Film has separate offices in Italy and France.
257 ##$aFrance$aGermany $aItaly$2naf
$2 - Source
MARC code that identifies the source of the term in subfield $a.
Code from: MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions.
$6 - Linkage
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields .
$8 - Field link and sequence number
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields .

INPUT CONVENTIONS

Punctuation - Field 257 ends with a period.

CONTENT DESIGNATOR HISTORY

Field 257 - Country of Producing Entity [RENAMED, 2009]
Prior to 2010 was named "Country of Producing Entity for Archival Films" and was (NR)
$a - Country of producing entity [RENAMED, 2009]
Prior to 2010 was named "Country of Producing Entity for Archival Films" and was (NR)
$2 - Source (NR) [NEW, 2009]

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