BibFormats

017  Copyright or Legal Deposit Number (R)

Record Type

BIB, LHR

Input Standards

Field (Full/Minimal)
Optional/Optional
1st Indicator  Undefined
blank character Undefined
2nd Indicator  Display constant controller
blank character Copyright or legal deposit number
8 No display constant generated
Subfields (R=Repeatable  NR=Nonrepeatable) Input Standards (Full/Minimal)
ǂa Copyright or legal deposit number (R) Required if applicable/Required if applicable
ǂb Assigning agency (NR) Required if applicable/Required if applicable
ǂd Date (NR) Optional/Optional
ǂi Display text (NR) Optional/Optional
ǂz Canceled/invalid copyright or legal deposit number (R) Required if applicable/Required if applicable
ǂ2 Source (NR) Optional/Optional
ǂ6 Linkage (NR) System supplied/System supplied
ǂ8 Field link and sequence number (R) Optional/Optional

Definition

The copyright registration number or legal deposit number of items acquired by copyright deposit or legal deposit. The agency assigning the number is always given with the copyright or legal deposit number.

Repeat the field when more than one agency has assigned a copyright or legal deposit number.

For bibliographic records, copyright numbers have occasionally been added to LC printed cards. LC printed them in the lower left corner, below the LC legend. If you are transcribing LC copy, do not enter the copyright number in field 017 or as a note. Do not treat such records as modified. MRec should be blank unless other modifications have been made.

1st Indicator

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

blank character

Undefined

2nd Indicator

Display constant controller

 
blank character

Copyright or legal deposit number

 
8

No display constant generated

Subfields

 
ǂa Copyright or legal deposit number

The copyright or legal deposit number.

017     DL 80-0-1524 ǂb Bibliothèque nationale du Québec
ǂb Assigning agency

The name of the agency assigning the number. Subfield ǂb must always be present whenever subfield ǂa is used.

For fields containing more than one subfield ǂa, subfield ǂb is recorded only once after the last subfield ǂa.

017     F31401 ǂa F31405 ǂb U.S. Copyright Office
ǂd Date

The date on which the copyright registration number was assigned. It is recorded in the format yyyymmdd in accordance with ISO 8601, Representation of Dates and Times.

017     PA111636 ǂb U.S. Copyright Office ǂd 19990828
ǂi Display text

Contains text to be displayed when the display constant associated with 2nd indicator value blank is inadequate. When this subfield is present, the 2nd indicator contains value 8.

017   8
ǂi Original registration: ǂa JP732 ǂb U.S. Copyright Office ǂd 19510504
ǂz Canceled/invalid copyright or legal deposit number

Canceled or invalid copyright or legal deposit number. Each canceled/invalid number is contained in a separate subfield ǂz. If no valid number exists, subfield ǂz may be used alone in the record.

017    
M44120-2006 ǂz M444120-2006
[Resource has both correct and invalid deposit numbers]
ǂ2 Source

For subfield ǂ2 codes, see Copyright and Legal Deposit Number Source Codes.

For information about subfield ǂ2, see Control Subfields.

017     1010102488 ǂ2 rocgpt
ǂ6 Linkage

Data that link fields when non-Latin script is entered. This subfield is system supplied and does not appear in OCLC online displays. Do not manually add subfield ǂ6. For more information about subfield ǂ6, see Control Subfields.

ǂ8 Field link and sequence number

For information about subfield ǂ8, see Control Subfields.

Indexing

Field 017 is not indexed.

MARC 21

For more information, including content designator history, see MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data, field 017.