Guidelines for Recording Holdings:
MARC Field 866 (Textual Holdings - Basic Bibliographic Unit)


This field contains a textual description of the holdings of a basic bibliographic unit.

First Indicator (Encoding Level):
CodeMeaningNotes
blankNo information provided 
3Level 3 holdingsUse for retrospective holdings and electronic resource holdings
4Level 4 holdings 
Second Indicator (Type of Notation):
CodeMeaningNotes
0Non standardUse for electronic resource holdings and "odd" holdings which are not covered in the standard
1ANSI/NISO Z39.71 or ISO 10324 
Subfield Codes:
CodeMeaningNotes
|8Field Link and Sequence Number
  • No space before or after the subfield
  • Subfield |8 is always the first subfield and the linking number is always 1
  • Example:  |81|av.1(1992)-v.10(2001)
|aTextual Holdings
  • No space after the subfield
  • Refer to guidelines for captions, enumeration, and chronology
  • Example:  |81|av.1(1992)-v.10(2001)
|xNonpublic Note
  • No space before or after the subfield
  • Use for staff notes that relate to the field, not the MARC holdings record as a whole
  • Example:  |81|av.1(1992)-v.9(2000)|xv.10(2001) wd/damaged
|zPublic Note
  • No space before or after the subfield
  • Use for public notes that relate to the field, not the MARC holdings record as a whole
  • Examples:

    |81|av.1(1992)-v.10(2001)|zSome issues missing
    |81|av.13:fasc.1-5|z(unbound)

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