257  Country of Producing Entity  (R)

Definition

Name or abbreviation of the name of the countries, areas, etc., where the principal offices of the producing entities of a resource are located. Entities in this instance are the production companies or individual named in the statement of responsibility in field 245 subfield ǂc. The inclusion of countries, areas, etc., in this field does not express any opinion concerning the legal status of the entity.

MARC 21 records cataloged according to Archival Moving Image Materials have the full form of the name of the countries in field 257.

For information on punctuation, see the Punctuation section below.

1st Indicator

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

	Undefined

2nd Indicator

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

	Undefined

Subfields

Punctuation

For records containing 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
• Optionally, add a terminal period at the end of the field, i.e., before the first of any numeric control subfields, unless the last subfield ends with an ellipsis, exclamation point, hyphen, period (following an abbreviation or initial), question mark, closing bracket, or closing parenthesis

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

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

Indexing

For indexing and searching information, see Searching WorldCat Indexes, field 257.

MARC 21

For more information, including content designator history, see MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data, field 257.