043  Geographic Area Code (R)

Geographic area code. Use a separate subfield ǂa for each code. Use the following guidelines:

• Assign a geographic area code if a subject heading assigned to the item has a geographic term in any form or position.

  043			nl-----
  651		0	Great Lakes Region (North America)

  043			f-mr---
  651		0	Rabat (Morocco) ǂv Guidebooks

  043			n-mx---
  651		0	Oaxaca (Mexico) ǂx Antiquities

  043			n-us-wa
  650		0	Education ǂz Washington (State) ǂz Seattle

  043			n-usu--
  650		0	Indians of North America ǂz Southern States

  043			n-cn-nu
  650		0	Geology ǂz Nunavut ǂz Baffin Island

  043			e-fr---
  650		0	Engineers, French

  043			e-uk---
  650		0	Art, British
  [The work is about art created by British artists, of the British school, or located in Great Britain]

  043			e-uk--- ǂa n-us---
  650		0	Art, British
  [The work is about British art located in the United States]

  043			zmo----
  650		0	Lunar petrology

• Assign geographic area codes if the subject matter warrants, even if the subject heading does not use a specific geographic term.

  043			n-us---
  245	0	0	Cigarettes: America's no. 1 public health problem
  650		0	Cigarette habit

  043			n-us---
  245	0	0	Women's bathing and swimming costumes in the United States
  650		0	Bathing suits ǂx History

• If several geographic areas are involved, assign multiple area codes.

  043			n-mx--- ǂa n-us---
  650		0	Mexicans ǂz United States

  043			n-us--- ǂa n-cn----
  650		0	Roads ǂz United States ǂv Maps
  650		0	Roads ǂz Canada ǂv Maps

  043			n-us--- ǂa e-fr--- ǂa e-uk---
  650		0	Corporations, American ǂz France
  650		0	Corporations, American ǂz Great Britain

  043			e-fr--- ǂa e-uk--- ǂa n-us---
  650		0	Copyright ǂz France
  650		0	Copyright ǂz Great Britain
  650		0	Copyright ǂz United States

  043			n------ ǂa s------
  651		0	America

• Assign codes for histories and criticisms of national literatures and for individual or collected works of literature if the subject headings show geographical content.

  043			e-uk-en
  650		0	English poetry ǂx History and criticism

  043			n-us-mt
  650		0	Little Big Horn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 ǂv Fiction

• Assign codes for collective national and local biographies. Do not assign codes to works of individual biography and autobiography, unless a subsequent subject heading cites the geographic entity.

  043			n-us-il
  245	0	0	New Salem, early chapter in Lincoln's life
  651		0	New Salem (Menard County, Ill.) ǂv Biography

• Assign geographic area codes for cultural and ethnic features.

  043			aw-----
  650		0	Civilization, Phoenician

  043			n-us-nm ǂa n-us-co
  610	2	0	Hermanos Penitentes

  043			n-us-az
  650		0	Hopi Indians

• Assign geographic area codes for corporate bodies.

  043			n-us-ca
  610	2	0	San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway Company

  043			n-us-il
  610	2	0	University of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign

• Do not assign geographic area codes for linguistic works. For example, in the subject heading Sermons, German, the adjective applies to the language and does not justify a geographic area code.

Local expansion of a geographic area code. Use a separate subfield ǂb for each local GAC code. The source of the code is indicated in subfield ǂ2 . It is recommended that standard geographic area codes also be included in subfield ǂa for international exchange and understanding.

A code taken from the ISO 3166, International Organization for Standardization's Codes for the Representation of Names of Countries and Their Subdivisions–Part 1: Country Codes or Part 2: Country Subdivision Codes .

When creating MARC bibliographic records according to RDA or AACR2, see MARC Code List for Geographic Areas for the list of codes. Each geographic area code has seven character positions composed of lowercase letters and hyphens.

When creating Dublin Core® records, non-MARC code lists may be used.

For information about subfield ǂ0, see Control Subfields.

For information about subfield ǂ1, see Control Subfields.

Source from which the local code was assigned. Used only when subfield ǂb is used to indicate a local GAC code. Code from Geographic Area Code and Term Source Codes.

For information about subfield ǂ2, see Control Subfields.

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.

For information about subfield ǂ8, see Control Subfields.