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307 Hours, Etc. (R)

Record Type
BIB
Input Standards
Field (Full/Minimal)
Optional/Optional
1st Indicator Display constant controller
	Hours
8	No display constant generated
2nd Indicator Undefined
	Undefined
Subfields (R=Repeatable NR=Nonrepeatable)		Input Standards (Full/Minimal)
ǂa	Hours (NR)	Mandatory/Mandatory
ǂb	Additional information (NR)	Required if applicable/Required if applicable
ǂ6	Linkage (NR)	System supplied/System supplied
ǂ8	Field link and sequence number (R)	Optional/Optional

Definition

The chronological information identifying the days and/or times an item is available or accessible. Use primarily in records for electronic resources.

For records in English, the following abbreviations may be used for the days of the week:

Days of the week	Abbreviation
Sunday	Su
Monday	M
Tuesday	Tu
Wednesday	W
Thursday	Th
Friday	F
Saturday	Sa

For information on punctuation, see the Punctuation section below.

1st Indicator

Display constant controller

Hours. Generates the display constant Hours: before the note.

307

M-F, 9:30am-3:30pm, USA EST

Displays as:

Hours: M-F, 9:30am-3:30pm, USA EST

8

No display constant generated. No display constant generated.

307

8

Date: Dec. 1, 1993, 2:00 p.m.

Displays as:

Date: Dec. 1, 1993, 2:00 p.m.

2nd Indicator

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

	Undefined

Subfields

ǂa Hours

The days and/or hours an item is available or accessible including references to A.M. and P.M. time designations and time zone, if needed.

307

M-F, 9AM-10PM

307

Tu-F, 10-6, Sa, 1-5, USA PST

307

8

8:00 p.m. Tu-F, 5:00 and 9:00 p.m., Sa; 2:00 and 7:00 p.m., Su (all times, EST)

ǂb Additional information

Additional information about the hours of availability of the item.

307

M-F, 6:30am-9:00pm (EST); ǂb with brief interruptions for periodic update/backup of data

307

Daily, 7am-7pm; ǂb text files only

307

M-F, 6:30 AM to 9:30 PM, Sa, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Su, 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM; ǂb closed on national holidays (all times are EST or EDT)

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:

Precede subfield ǂb by a semicolon-space
Separate days of the week from hours by a comma-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 unless the last subfield ends with an ellipsis, exclamation point, hyphen, period (following an abbreviation or initial), question mark, closing bracket, or closing parenthesis

307

M, 8:30-6:00, Tu, 8:30-7:00, W-F, 8:30-6:00; ǂb not available on weekends.

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

307

M, 8:30-6:00, Tu, 8:30-7:00, W-F, 8:30-6:00 ǂb not available on weekends

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

Indexing

Field 307 is not indexed.

MARC 21

For more information, including content designator history, see MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data, field 307.

This page last revised: December 28, 2020

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