BibFormats

386  Creator/Contributor Characteristics (R)

Record Type

BIB

Input Standards

Field (Full/Minimal)
Optional/Optional
1st Indicator  Undefined
blank character Undefined
2nd Indicator  Undefined
blank character Undefined
Subfields (R=Repeatable  NR=Nonrepeatable) Input Standards (Full/Minimal)
ǂa Creator/contributor term (R) Required if applicable/Required if applicable
ǂb Creator/contributor code (R) Required if applicable/Required if applicable
ǂi Relationship information (R) Optional/Optional
ǂm Demographic group term (NR) Required if applicable/Required if applicable
ǂn Demographic group code (NR) Required if applicable/Required if applicable
ǂ0 Authority record control number or standard number (R) Optional/Optional
ǂ1 Real World Object URI (R) Optional/Optional
ǂ2 Source (NR) Required if applicable/Required if applicable
ǂ3 Materials specified (NR) Required if applicable/Required if applicable
ǂ4 Relationship (R) Optional/Optional
ǂ6 Linkage (NR) System supplied/System supplied
ǂ7 Data provenance (R) Optional/Optional
ǂ8 Field link and sequence number (NR) Optional/Optional

Definition

A group category to which the creator(s) of a work or compilation of works, or the contributor(s) to an expression or compilation of expressions, belongs.

If a demographic group is not specified then multiple creator/contributor group categories from the same source vocabulary or code list may be recorded in the same field in separate occurrences of subfield ǂa and subfield ǂb. If a demographic group is specified then the categories in the field must all come from the same group. Terms from different source vocabularies are recorded in separate occurrences of the field.

For guidance on assigning demographic group terms, see the Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms Manual.

For information on punctuation, see the Punctuation section below.

1st Indicator

Undefined. The 1st indicator position is undefined and contains a blank.

blank character

Undefined

2nd Indicator

Undefined. The 2nd indicator position is undefined and contains a blank.

blank character

Undefined

Subfields

 
ǂa Creator/
contributor term

Creator/contributor group category of the work being described. Repeatable if a creator/contributor falls into multiple demographic groups.

245 0 0 Eyes of desire : ǂb a deaf gay & lesbian reader / ǂc Raymond Luczak, editor
386     Deaf ǂa Gays ǂa Deaf gays ǂ2 lcsh
386     ǂn nat ǂa Americans ǂ2 lcsh
100 1   Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, ǂd 1756-1791, ǂe composer
240 1 0 Sonatas, ǂm violin, piano, ǂn K. 8, ǂr B♭ major
386     Child composers ǂ2 lcsh
[Work composed by Mozart in 1763 at the age of 7]
ǂb Creator/
contributor code

Code representing creator/contributor group category of the work being described.

245 0 0
Directions in music cataloging / ǂc edited by Peter H. Lisius and Richard Griscom
386     Catalog librarian ǂb 100.387-010 ǂ2 dot
ǂi Relationship information

Designation of a relationship between one or more members of the demographic group recorded in the 386 field and the resource described in the 1xx/245 of the record. This may be an uncontrolled textual phrase or a controlled textual value from a list of relationships between bibliographic resources.

386    
ǂi Performer: ǂa Children ǂa French ǂ2 [source code for controlled vocabulary]
      [Work of traditional carols sung by a French children's choir]
ǂm Demographic group term

A term designating the demographic group (e.g., an age group; a religious group) to which the terms and codes in subfields ǂa or ǂb belong.

245 0 0 Short story masterpieces by American women writers
386     ǂm Nationality/regional group ǂa Americans ǂ2 lcsh
386     ǂm Gender group ǂa Women ǂ2 lcsh
386     ǂm Nationality/regional group ǂa North Americans ǂ2 ericd
386     ǂm Gender group ǂa Females ǂ2 ericd
245 0 0 Buddhists talk about Jesus, Christians talk about Buddha
386     ǂm Religious group ǂa Christians ǂa Buddhists ǂ2 lcsh
ǂn Demographic group code

MARC code that specifies the demographic group category (e.g., an age group, a religious group) into which a particular term (subfield ǂa) or code (subfield ǂb) for creator/contributor group category falls. For guidance on assigning demographic group codes, see section L 405, Categories of Terms, in the Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms Manual.

245 0 0 Diamonds are forever : ǂb artists and writers on baseball
386     ǂn occ ǂa Artists ǂa Authors ǂ2 ericd
ǂ0 Authority record control number or standard number

For information about subfield ǂ0, see Control Subfields.

ǂ1 Real World Object URI

For information about subfield ǂ1, see Control Subfields.

ǂ2 Source

Source of the term or code used to record the creator/contributor information. See Subject Heading and Term Source Codes.

For more information about subfield ǂ2, see Control Subfields.

245 0 0 Swallowing clouds : ǂb an anthology of Chinese-Canadian poetry
386     Chinese Canadians ǂ2 cash
ǂ3 Materials specified

For information about subfield ǂ3, see Control Subfields.

ǂ4 Relationship

For information about subfield ǂ4, see Control Subfields.

ǂ6 Linkage

Data that link fields when non-Latin script is entered. This subfield is system supplied and does not appear in OCLC online displays. Do not manually add subfield ǂ6. For more information about subfield ǂ6, see Control Subfields.

ǂ7 Data provenance

For information about subfield ǂ7, see the Data Provenance Subfields section of Control Subfields.


ǂ8 Field link and sequence number

For information about subfield ǂ8, see Control Subfields.

Punctuation

For records containing or omitting punctuation, follow these instructions:

  • Include incidental punctuation needed within any subfields, e.g., commas, periods (following abbreviations or initials), etc.
  • Omit punctuation preceding each subfield unless the preceding subfield ends with an ellipsis, exclamation point, hyphen, period (following an abbreviation or initial), question mark, closing bracket, or closing parenthesis
  • Omit the terminal period at the end of the field unless the last word is an abbreviation or initial
386     ǂm Gender group ǂa Women ǂ2 lcsh

For more information on punctuation, including OCLC policy, see section 2.8, Punctuation.

Indexing

For indexing and searching information, see Searching WorldCat Indexes, field 386.

MARC 21

For more information, including content designator history, see MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data, field 386.