MARC Tagging: Bibliographic and Authorities
Last content review: 2026-06-01
MARC21 Tagging and Music
MARC tagging for scores: fixed field codes (Voyager 008 and Leader) | variable fields
MARC tagging for sound recordings: fixed field codes (Voyager 008 and Leader) | Physical description (Voyager 007) | variable fields
MARC tagging for books: fixed field codes (Voyager 008 and Leader)
010: Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN)
024: Other Standard Identifier
028: Publisher or Distributor Number
Manufacturer's number (sound recordings)
033: Date and place of capture
Geographical area and sub-area codes for the 033 field
041: Language code for sung or spoken text and accompanying material
046: Special coded dates
264: Production, publication, distribution, and manufacture statements and copyright date
336-338: Content, media, and carrier type
348: Format of notated music and form of musical notation
370, 371, 372, 373, 374, 375, and 378: Name attributes
Work and expression attributes
775: Other edition
General
RDA to MARC bibliographic mapping (maps RDA elements to corresponding MARC 21 bibliographic elements; in RDA Toolkit)
RDA changes from AACR2 in MARC tag order J. McRee Elrod
Bibframe
MARC to BIBFRAME: an exploration of the future of cataloging (video of a presentation at the 2015 MLA meeting)
Filing indicators/characters
LC documentation
MARC 21 for authority data (100-388 fields)
Country codes: code sequence | name sequence
Geographic codes: code sequence | name sequence
Language codes: code sequence | name sequence
OCLC documentation