386 Creator/Contributor Characteristics (R)

Record Type
BIB
Input Standards
Field (Full/Minimal)
Optional/Optional
1st Indicator Undefined
	Undefined
2nd Indicator Undefined
	Undefined
Subfields (R=Repeatable NR=Nonrepeatable)		Input Standards (Full/Minimal)
ǂa	Creator/contributor term (R)	Required if applicable/Required if applicable
ǂb	Creator/contributor code (R)	Required if applicable/Required if applicable
ǂi	Relationship information (R)	Optional/Optional
ǂm	Demographic group term (NR)	Required if applicable/Required if applicable
ǂn	Demographic group code (NR)	Required if applicable/Required if applicable
ǂ0	Authority record control number or standard number (R)	Optional/Optional
ǂ1	Real World Object URI (R)	Optional/Optional
ǂ2	Source (NR)	Required if applicable/Required if applicable
ǂ3	Materials specified (NR)	Required if applicable/Required if applicable
ǂ4	Relationship (R)	Optional/Optional
ǂ6	Linkage (NR)	System supplied/System supplied
ǂ7	Data provenance (R)	Optional/Optional
ǂ8	Field link and sequence number (NR)	Optional/Optional

Definition

A group category to which the creator(s) of a work or compilation of works, or the contributor(s) to an expression or compilation of expressions, belongs.

For information on punctuation, see the Punctuation section below.

Guidelines

Prefer use of a separate field for each creator/contributor term.

For guidance on assigning Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms (LCDGT), see the Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms Manual.

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

ǂa Creator/
contributor term

Creator/contributor group category of the work being described. Repeatable if a creator/contributor falls into multiple demographic groups.

245	0	0	Three plays by Louisiana playrights
386			Louisianians ǂ2 lcdgt
386			ǂa Playwrights ǂ2 lcdgt

100	1		Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, ǂd 1756-1791, ǂe composer
240	1	0	Sonatas, ǂm violin, piano, ǂn K. 8, ǂr B♭ major
386			Child composers ǂ2 lcsh
[Work composed by Mozart in 1763 at the age of 7]

ǂb Creator/
contributor code

Code representing creator/contributor group category of the work being described.

245	0	0	Directions in music cataloging
386			Catalog librarian ǂb 100.387-010 ǂ2 dot

ǂi Relationship information

Designation of a relationship between one or more members of the demographic group recorded in the 386 field and the resource described in the 1xx/245 of the record. This may be an uncontrolled textual phrase or a controlled textual value from a list of relationships between bibliographic resources.

386			ǂi Performer: ǂa Children ǂa French ǂ2 [source code for controlled vocabulary]
			[Work of traditional carols sung by a French children's choir]

ǂm Demographic group term

A term designating the demographic group (e.g., an age group; a religious group) to which the terms and codes in subfields ǂa or ǂb belong.

245	0	0	Short story masterpieces by American women writers
386			ǂm National/regional ǂa Americans ǂ2 lcdgt
386			ǂm Occupational/field of activity ǂa Writers ǂ2 lcdgt

245	0	0	Buddhists talk about Jesus, Christians talk about Buddha
386			ǂm Religion ǂa Buddhists ǂ0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/demographicTerms/dg2015060246 ǂ2 lcdgt
386			ǂm Religion ǂa Christians ǂ0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/demographicTerms/dg2015060258 ǂ2 lcdgt

ǂn Demographic group code

MARC code that specifies the demographic group category (e.g., an age group, a religious group) into which a particular term (subfield ǂa) or code (subfield ǂb) for creator/contributor group category falls. For guidance on assigning demographic group codes, see L 405, Categories of Terms, in the Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms Manual.

245	0	0	Diamonds are forever : ǂb artists and writers on baseball
386			ǂn occ ǂa Artists ǂ2 lcdgt
386			ǂn occ ǂa Writers ǂ2 lcdgt

ǂ0 Authority record control number or standard number

For information about subfield ǂ0, see Control Subfields.

ǂ1 Real World Object URI

For information about subfield ǂ1, see Control Subfields.

ǂ2 Source

Source of the term or code used to record the creator/contributor information. See Subject Heading and Term Source Codes.

For more information about subfield ǂ2, see Control Subfields.

245	0	0	Swallowing clouds : ǂb an anthology of Chinese-Canadian poetry
386			Chinese Canadians ǂ2 cash

ǂ3 Materials specified

For information about subfield ǂ3, see Control Subfields.

ǂ4 Relationship

For information about subfield ǂ4, see Control Subfields.

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.

ǂ7 Data provenance

For information about subfield ǂ7, see the Data Provenance Subfields section of Control Subfields.

ǂ8 Field link and sequence number

For information about subfield ǂ8, see Control Subfields.

Punctuation

For records containing or omitting punctuation, follow these instructions:

Include incidental punctuation needed within any subfields, e.g., commas, periods (following abbreviations or initials), etc.
Omit punctuation preceding each subfield unless the preceding subfield ends with an ellipsis, exclamation point, hyphen, period (following an abbreviation or initial), question mark, closing bracket, or closing parenthesis
Omit the terminal period at the end of the field unless the last word is an abbreviation or initial

386

ǂa muralists (painters) ǂ2 aat

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

Indexing

For indexing and searching information, see Searching WorldCat Indexes, field 386.

MARC 21

For more information, including content designator history, see MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data, field 386.

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