BibFormats

561  Ownership and Custodial History (R)

Record Type

BIB, LHR

Input Standards

Field (Full/Minimal)
Optional/Optional
1st Indicator  Privacy
blank character No information provided
0 Private
1 Not private
2nd Indicator  Undefined
blank character Undefined
Subfields (R=Repeatable  NR=Nonrepeatable) Input Standards (Full/Minimal)
ǂa History (NR) Mandatory/Mandatory
ǂu Uniform Resource Identifier (R) Optional/Optional
ǂ3 Materials specified (NR) Optional/Optional
ǂ5 Institution to which field applies (NR) Optional/Optional
ǂ6 Linkage (NR) System supplied/System supplied
ǂ8 Field link and sequence number (R) Optional/Optional

Definition

A note about the ownership and custodial history of the described materials from the time of their creation to the time of their accession. Use also to include the time at which individual items or groups of items were first brought together in their current arrangement or collation.

Use field 561 also to record:

  • The owner's name and address when the item is located other than at the owner's address. Use field 852 to record the current location of the item.
  • The original site of the item if the item has been moved to another location. Use field 852 to record the current location of the item.
  • The last known owner or location of the item if the item has been stolen or destroyed.

Use field 361 to record a structured description about the ownership and custodial history of an item. Use field 541 to record the immediate source of acquisition.

For information on punctuation, see the Punctuation section below.

1st Indicator

Privacy.

 
blank character

No information provided. Fields with 1st indicator blank are retained in the WorldCat record, the displayed record, the exported record, and records delivered via other services.

 
0

Private. Fields with 1st indicator 0 are not retained in the WorldCat record, but are included in exported records and records delivered via other services. Note: If field 561 is coded with 1st indicator 0, the field is visible in the displayed record only during the session in which it was input.

 
1

Not private. Fields with 1st indicator 1 are retained in the WorldCat record, the displayed record, the exported record, and records delivered via other services.

2nd Indicator

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

blank character

Undefined

Subfields

 
ǂa History

The entire text of the note.

561 1   Collated: 1845-1847
561     Collection originally begun by David McNeely Stauffer and completed by Mr. Morgan
561 0   From the collection of L. McGarry, 1948-1957
561     On permanent loan from the collection of Paul Mellon
561     Originally collected by George Madison and arranged by his nephew, John Ferris, after Madison's death. Purchased by Henry Kapper in 1878 who added to the collection with materials purchased at auctions in Philadelphia and Paris, 1878-1893
561     The journal was discovered in a cellar in Nantes in 1837 and was removed to the Abbey of St. Pierre, where it remained until 1887, when it was given to Gehan Tourel ...
ǂu Uniform Resource Identifier For information about subfield ǂu, see Control Subfields. In field 561, subfield ǂu is used to record the location of electronically accessible source information.
ǂ3 Materials specified

For information about subfield ǂ3, see Control Subfields.

561     ǂ3 Family correspondence ǂa Originally collected by Henry Fitzhugh, willed to his wife Sarah Jackson Fitzhugh and given by her to her grandson Jonathan Irving Jackson, who collected some further information about his grandmother and the papers of their relatives and Cellarsville neighbors, the Arnold Fitzhugh's, before donating the materials along with his own papers as mayor of Cellarsville to the Historical Society
ǂ5 Institution to which field applies

For information about subfield ǂ5, 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.

ǂ8 Field link and sequence number

For information about subfield ǂ8, see Control Subfields.

Punctuation

For records containing punctuation, follow these instructions:

  • Optionally, follow an initial subfield ǂ3 by a colon-space or a space-colon-space if following an open date
  • Precede ǂu by a colon-space or period-space
  • Include incidental punctuation needed within any subfields, e.g., commas, periods (following abbreviations or initials), etc.
  • Optionally, add a terminal period at the end of the field (preceding subfield ǂ5) unless the last subfield ends with an ellipsis or period (following an abbreviation or initial)
561
    On permanent loan from the collection of Paul Mellon.

For records containing minimal or no punctuation, include incidental punctuation needed within any subfields. Otherwise, omit the punctuation outlined above.

561
    On permanent loan from the collection of Paul Mellon

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

Indexing

For indexing and searching information, see Searching WorldCat Indexes, field 561.

MARC 21

For more information, including content designator history, see MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data, field 561.