550  Issuing Body Note (R)

Definition

A note referring to current and former issuing bodies, including notes containing compiling, editing, or translating information that involves an issuing body. Use field 550 also for notes denoting the item as an official organ of a society, etc.

Field 550 can be used to record issuing bodies and explain their relationship to the publication. The field can be used to justify access points in 7xx fields.

Use field 500 for notes relating to commercial publishers, distributors, or places of publication.

For information on punctuation, see the Punctuation section below.

1st Indicator

Undefined. The 1st indicator position is undefined and contains a blank.

	Undefined

2nd Indicator

Undefined. The 2nd indicator position is undefined and contains a blank.

	Undefined

Subfields

Punctuation

For records containing punctuation, follow these instructions:

• Include incidental punctuation needed within any subfields, e.g., commas, periods (following abbreviations or initials), etc.
• Optionally, add a terminal period at the end of the field unless the last subfield ends with an ellipsis or period (following an abbreviation or initial)

For records containing minimal or no punctuation, include incidental punctuation needed within any subfields. Otherwise, omit the punctuation outlined above.

For more information on punctuation, including OCLC policy, see section 2.8, Punctuation.

Indexing

For indexing and searching information, see Searching WorldCat Indexes, field 550.

MARC 21

For more information, including content designator history, see MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data, field 550.