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511 - Participant or Performer Note (R)

MARC 21 Bibliographic - Full

October 2001

First Indicator
Display constant controller
0 - No display constant generated
1 - Cast

Second Indicator
Undefined
# - Undefined


Subfield Codes
$a - Participant or performer note (NR) $6 - Linkage (NR)	$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)

FIELD DEFINITION AND SCOPE

Information about the participants, players, narrators, presenters, or performers.

The participant or performer note is sometimes displayed and/or printed with an introductory term or phrase that is generated as a display constant based on the first indicator value.

GUIDELINES FOR APPLYING CONTENT DESIGNATORS

■ INDICATORS

First Indicator - Display constant controller

Controls the generation of a display constant preceding the note.

0 - No display constant generated

1 - Cast

Used to generate the display constant Cast:.


511	1#$aAnne Baxter (Louise), Maria Perschy (Angela), Gustavo Rojo (Bill), Reginald Gilliam (Mr. Johnson), [Catherine Elliot?] (Aunt Sallie), Ben Tatar (waiter).

Second Indicator - Undefined

Undefined and contains a blank (#).

■ SUBFIELD CODES

$a - Participant or performer note

Entire text of the participant or performer note.


511	0#$aMarshall Moss, violin ; Neil Roberts, harpsichord.
511	0#$aHosted by Hugh Downs.
511	1#$aJackie Glanville.
511	1#$aColin Blakely, Jane Lapotaire.
511	0#$aAnchor, Dan Rather.
511	0#$aVoices: Peter Ustinov, Cloris Leachman, Sally Kellerman, Andy Devine.
511	0#$aPresenter: Alfred Hitchcock.
511	0#$aNarrator: Burl Ives.

$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 511 ends with a period unless another mark of punctuation is present.

Display Constants - Introductory term Cast: is not carried in the MARC record. It may be system generated as a display constant associated with the first indicator value.

First indicator	Display constant
0	[no display constant]
1	Cast:

CONTENT DESIGNATOR HISTORY

Indicator 1 - Display constant controller [NEW, 1980]
2 - Presenter (VM, MU) [OBSOLETE, 1993]
3 - Narrator (VM, MU) [OBSOLETE, 1993]

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