Standard Cataloging Procedures - MARC Tag Cheat Sheet

Standard Cataloging Procedures - MARC Tag Cheat Sheet

Standard Cataloging Procedures

The Standard Cataloging Procedures (SCP) articles and video tutorials are meant to be a guide for cataloging practices in the Montana Shared Catalog library consortium. For more explanation of the topics covered herein, please refer to the Help menu in WorkFlows (F1), or contact the MSC staff or your cataloging mentor.


MARC Tag Cheat Sheet

The links below go to  OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards unless otherwise noted.
0XX     Bibliographic control number and codes (including call numbers)

            007      Physical characteristics fixed field – for audio/visual, large print and kits.

010      Library of Congress Catalog/Card Number

            020      ISBN

            022      ISSN

            035      System Control Number (OCLC Control Number)

            050      Library of Congress Call Number

            060      National Library of Medicine Call Number

            082      Dewey Decimal Call Number

1XX     Main Entry (Author)

            100      Personal Name

            110      Corporate Name

            111       Conference/Meeting Name

            130      Uniform Title

2XX     Title and Title Paragraph

            240      Uniform Title

            245      Title Statement |a Title |b Subtitle |c Statement of Responsibility

            246      Varying Form of Title

            250      Edition Statement

            260      Publication (obsolete)

            264      RDA Publication, Distribution, Manufacture or Copyright Statement

3XX     Physical Description

300      Physical Description

            310      Current Publication Frequency

            336      Content Type (LC Controlled Vocabulary List for RDA Content Type)

            337      Media Type (LC Controlled Vocabulary List for RDA Media Type)

            338      Carrier Type (LC Controlled Vocabulary List for RDA Carrier Type)

            362      Dates of Publication and/or Sequential Designation

4XX     Series Statement

            490      Series Statement – (for traced series, see also 800 or 830)

5XX     Notes (Information that does not fit elsewhere)

            500      General Note

            505      Contents Note (titles of songs, table of contents, section names, etc.)

            520      Summary Note

            521       Target Audience Note (Lexiles and movie ratings)

            526      Study Program Information Note (Reading Counts & AR information)

            546      Language Note, for use with with 041

            586      Award Notes (Winners of Caldecott, Newbery, etc.)

6XX     Subject Headings

            600      Subject Added Entry—Personal Name

            610      Subject Added Entry—Corporate Name

            650      Subject Added Entry—Topical Term

            651       Subject Added Entry—Geographic Name

            655      Index Term—Genre/Form

7XX     Added Entries

            700      Added Personal Name

            710       Corporate Body

            785      Succeeding entry (for serials)

8XX     Holdings, Alternative Graphics, etc.

800      Series Added Entry – Personal Name

830      Series Added Entry – Uniform Title

            856      Electronic Location and Access (hyperlinks for electronic access)

9XX    Locally Defined Fields