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545 - Biographical or Historical Data (R)


MARC 21 Bibliographic - Concise
2007

Biographical information about an individual or historical information about an institution or event used as the main entry for the item being cataloged. When a distinction between levels of detail is required, a brief summary is given in subfield $a and a fuller annotation is given in subfield $b.

Indicators
First - Type of data
# - No information provided
0 - Biographical sketch
1 - Administrative history
Second - Undefined
# - Undefined
Subfield Codes
$a - Biographical or historical data (NR)
$b - Expansion (NR)
$u - Uniform Resource Identifier (R)
$6 - Linkage (NR)
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.
$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.
Examples
545 ##$aActive from March 15, 1905 until April 17, 1989.
545 0#$aBorn Kingston, N.Y., April 4, 1856; worked at J.J. Bufford's Lith. in Boston, 1890-1895.
545 ##$aAuthor and reformer. Born Harriet Elizabeth Beecher. Married (1836) Calvin Ellis Stowe (1802-1886).
545 ##$aThe Baton Rouge Audubon Society is a chapter of the National Audubon Society, a bird preservation group founded in 1905 and named for the American naturalist and wildlife painter John James Audubon (1785-1851).$bThe Baton Rouge Audubon Society is dedicated to protecting birds, wildlife, and their habitats in Louisiana. More information about the Baton Rouge Audubon Society is available on its website at:$uhttp://www.braudubon.org/

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