COMARC/A Format for Authorities Data

PDFCOMARC/AMarch2018

240 Authorized access point – name/title

This field contains a name/title access point. A name/title access point is intended to bring together the records for various issues of a work or items in series.

Subfields & repeatability

FIELD/SUBFIELDREPEATABILITY
240Authorized access point – name/titlenr
aNamenr
tTitlenr
9Language of the base access pointnr

Indicators

Indicator values are not defined.

SUBFIELDS

Subfield 9 is described in the Control Subfields chapter.

240a Name

The name of the person, corporate body or family with primary intellectual responsibility for the item registered in subfield t. When subfield a is a composite of more than one standard subfield, use ISBD punctuation to separate the elements.

240t Title

The title by which the work is known. When subfield t is a composite of more than one standard subfield, use ISBD punctuation to separate the elements.

NOTES ON FIELD CONTENTS

The field contains the preferred form of a name/title formulated in accordance with the national descriptive cataloguing rules or subject system.

RELATED FIELDS

440VARIANT ACCESS POINT – NAME/TITLE
540RELATED ACCESS POINT – NAME/TITLE
740AUTHORIZED ACCESS POINT IN OTHER LANGUAGE AND/OR SCRIPT – NAME/TITLE

EXAMPLES

  1. 240⊔⊔aMozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) tDon Giovanni. KV527 (Prague)

  2. *

    240⊔⊔aCankar, Ivan, 1876-1918 tNa klancu
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