ORGANIZATION OF THIS DOCUMENT
Main Parts
MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data consists of a Summary Statement of Content Designators followed by a detailed presentation of each content designator. Following the descriptions of the Leader and the Directory, the detailed presentations for each variable field are arranged in field tag order.
Appendixes to this document provide information about several control subfields (Appendix A), full level record examples (Appendix B), minimal level record examples (Appendix C), multiscript record examples (Appendix D), an alphabetical listing of ambiguous headings with suggested tagging (Appendix E), a multilingual list of initial definite and indefinite articles (Appendix F), lists of changes to the format since the last edition or update (Appendix G), a listing of several Canadian and American local fields (Appendix H) and a list of organization code sources (Appendix I).