COMARC/B Format for Bibliographic Data

PDFCOMARC/BSeptember2003

021 Legal deposit number

This field contains the number assigned to the item being recorded by the legal deposit or copyright office in each country.

Subfields & repeatability

FIELD/SUBFIELDREPEATABILITY
021Legal deposit numberr
aCountry codenr
bNumbernr
zErroneous numberr

Indicators

Indicator values are not defined.

SUBFIELDS

021a Country code

The country of the legal deposit agency assigning the number.

021b Number

As assigned by the agency.

021z Erroneous number

A number erroneously assigned to an item.

NOTES ON FIELD CONTENTS

The preferred form of the legal deposit number is the form in which it is assigned by the agency, including spaces, hyphens and other punctuation. In subfield a the country code is entered according to ISO 3166.

An erroneous number may be entered in subfield z. When only an erroneous number is known the field will contain only subfields a and z.

EXAMPLES

  1. 021⊔⊔aUS bA68778
    (A United States legal deposit number.)

  2. *

    021⊔⊔asvn b9902853
    (A Slovenian legal deposit number.)
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