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507 - Scale Note for Visual Materials (NR)

MARC 21 Bibliographic - concise
July 2022

Scale of a visual material resource, for example a still image or three-dimensional form, given as a textual note.

For cartographic materials, prefer field 255 (Cartographic Mathematical Data) to record the scale information.

Indicators

First - Undefined
# - Undefined
Second - Undefined
# - Undefined

Subfield Codes

$a - Representative fraction of scale note (NR)
$b - Remainder of scale note (NR)
$6 - Linkage (NR)
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.
$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.

Examples

507 ##$aScale 1:10 of the original.
507 ##$aScale 1/16 in. to 1 ft.
507 ##$aScale 40 feet to 1 inch.
507 ##$aScale 1:500,000;$b1 in. equals 8 miles.
507 ##$bPerspective map not drawn to scale.
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