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017 Copyright/Legal Deposit No.

018 Copyright Article-Fee Code 019 OCLC Control No. Cross-Reference 020 ISBN 022 ISSN 024 Other Standard Identifier 025 Overseas Acquisition No. 026 Fingerprint Identifier 027 STRN 028 Publisher No. 029 Other System Control No. 030 CODEN Designation 031 Musical Incipits Information 032 Postal Registration No. 033 Date/Time/Place of an Event 034 Coded Cartographic Mathematical Data 035 System Control No. 036 Original Study No. 037 Source of Acquisition 040 Cataloging Source 041 Language Code 042 Authentication Code 043 Geographic Area Code 044 Country Code 045 Time Period 046 Special Coded Dates 047 Musical Composition Code 048 Number of Instruments/Voices Code 049 Local Holdings 050-099 Introduction 050 LC Call No. 051 LC Copy, Issue, Offprint Statement 052 Geographic Classification 055 Classification No.-Canada 060 NLM Call Number 061 NLM Copy Statement 066 Character Sets 070 NAL Call No. 071 NAL Copy Statement 072 Subject Category Code 074 GPO Item No. 079 OCLC Master Record Number 080 UDC No. 082 DDC No. 084 Other Classification No. 086 GovDoc Classification No. 088 Report No. 090 Local LC-type Call No. 092 Local Dewey Call No. 096 Local NLM-type Call No. 098 Other Classification Schemes 099 Local Free-Text Call No.

Contents   Fixed field   0xx   1xx   2xx   3xx   4xx   5xx   6xx   7xx   8xx   9xx

017  Copyright or Legal Deposit Number (R)

Input Standards

Optional/Optional
1st Indicator  Undefined
blank character  Undefined
2nd Indicator  Display constant controller
blank character  Copyright or legal deposit number
8 No display constant generated
Subfields (R=Repeatable  NR=Nonrepeatable) Input Standards
‡a Copyright or legal deposit number (R) Mandatory/Mandatory
‡b Assigning agency (NR) Mandatory/Mandatory
‡d Date (NR) Optional/Optional
‡i Display text (NR) Optional/Optional
‡2 Source (NR) Optional/Optional


Definition

 The copyright registration number or legal deposit number of items acquired by copyright deposit or legal deposit. The agency assigning the number is always given with the copyright or legal deposit number.

Repeat the field when more than one agency has assigned a copyright or legal deposit number.

Copyright numbers have occasionally been added to LC printed cards. LC prints them in the lower left corner, below the LC legend.

If you are transcribing LC copy, do not enter the copyright number in field 017 or as a note. Do not treat such records as modified. should be blank unless other modifications have been made.

1st Indicator

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

2nd Indicator

 Display constant controller. The 2nd indicator position is undefined and contains a blank (blank character ).
blank character Copyright or legal deposit number
8 No display constant generated

Subfields
‡a Copyright or legal deposit number The copyright or legal deposit number.
‡b Assigning agency The name of the agency assigning the number. Subfield ‡b must always be present whenever field 017 is used.

For fields containing more than one subfield ‡a, subfield ‡b is recorded only once after the last subfield ‡a.

‡d Date The date on which the copyright registration number was assigned. Formulated according to ISO 8601 (yyyymmdd).
‡i Display text Contains text to be displayed when the display constant associated with second indicator value blank character is inadequate. When this subfield is present, the second indicator contains value 8.
‡2 Source The source of the national bibliography number in subfield ‡a. See MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions ( http://www.loc.gov/marc/relators/relahome.html).

Printing

 Field 017 does not print.

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