526  Study Program Information Note (R)

Definition

A note giving the name of a study program which uses the title described in the record. Record details about the study program data elements also in field 526. Use field 526 primarily for formal curriculum-based study or reading programs.

Field 526 should be used to record programs of interest at the national or regional level. If the note is about a local level program, use field 590 or field 599. Alternatively, you may edit field 526 locally.

For information on punctuation, see the Punctuation section below.

1st Indicator

Display constant controller. A value that controls the generation of a display constant preceding the note.

2nd Indicator

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

	Undefined

Subfields

Punctuation

For records containing punctuation, follow these instructions:

• Optionally, follow an initial subfield ǂi by a colon-space or a space-colon-space if following an open date
• 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
• Optionally, add a terminal period at the end of the field (preceding subfield ǂ5) 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

Field 526 is not indexed.

MARC 21

For more information, including content designator history, see MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data, field 526.