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550 Issuing Body Note (R)

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‡a	Issuing body note (NR)	Mandatory/Mandatory

Definition

A note referring to current and former issuing bodies, including notes containing compiling, editing, or translating information that involves an issuing body. Use field 550 also for notes denoting the item as an official organ of a society, etc.

Field 550 can be used to record issuing bodies and explain their relationship to the publication. The field can be used to justify 7xx added entry fields (7xx Fields).

Use field 500 for notes relating to commercial publishers, distributors, or places of publication.

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Subfields

‡a Issuing body note

The entire text of the note.

550			Organ of the Potomac-side Naturalists' Club.
710	2		Potomac-side Naturalists' Club.

550		Volumes for 1878-1902 issued by the Bureau of Statistics (Department of the Treasury); 1903-1911 by the Bureau of Statistics (Department of Commerce and Labor); 1912-1937 by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce; 1938- by the Bureau of the Census.
710	1	United States. ‡b Bureau of the Census.
710	1	United States. ‡b Department of the Treasury. ‡b Bureau of Statistics.
710	1	United States. ‡b Department of Commerce and Labor. ‡b Bureau of Statistics.
710	1	United States. ‡b Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.

550			Volumes for 1921-1927 published under the auspices of the British Institute of International Affairs.
710	2		British Institute of International Affairs.

550			Volumes for 1974- published in cooperation with the Kansas State Board of Agriculture.
710	1		Kansas. ‡b State Board of Agriculture.

Indexing

For indexing and searching information, see Searching WorldCat Indexes, field 550.

Printing

Field 550 prints as a note. See "5xx Introduction" for more information.

This page last revised: October 17, 2013

5xx Introduction