The Subject Added Entry - Personal Name (600 tag)
of the MARC 21 bibliographic record contains a 
personal name used as a subject heading. This tag 
tells us the item is about an individual or a 
family. The 600 tag provides access to 
autobiographies, biographies, genealogies, comments 
on the literary, musical, or artistic work of a 
person, collections of letters, and diaries. It is 
important to add 600 tags as well as 100 tags to 
autobiographies so the library user can find the 
item during a subject search, not just an author 
search. 

Chapter 22 of AACR2, "Headings For Persons", 
contains rules for constructing names in AACR2 
form. Chapter 25, "Uniform Titles", includes the 
rules for establishing the title portion of this field. 

In subfields b, c, d, and q, numbers, titles, 
dates, and fuller forms of the name distinguish 
persons with the same name from each other. A 
Roman Numeral following the name of a ruler, pope, 
or other person known only by a forename is 
consider a number and this information is entered 
in subfield b. However, numbers are considered a 
title when used with other names, such as John Doe 
III and the numeration is entered in subfield c. 

The 600 tag can also provide subject access to 
information about the works of an individual. For 
example, in addition to biographies of William 
Shakespeare, a library may own commentaries on 
different versions or translations of his plays, 
concordances, histories of individual plays, 
criticism of his poetry, and studies about his 
characters. The 600 tag provides access to these by 
including subfields for titles, parts, languages of 
translations, and names of versions. 

In addition, the 600 tag can provide more precise 
subject access through subdivisions. Subdivisions 
and the rules for using them are established by the 
agency responsible for individual subject heading 
systems, such as the Library of Congress and Sears. 

In the 6XX tags the second indicator tells which of
the authorized sources for subject headings was 
used. Many lists of authorized subject headings are 
available. The most commonly used are Library of 
Congress Subject Headings, LC Subject Headings 
for Children's Literature, and Sears List of 
Subject Headings (see explanations with the 
examples below). When using Sears headings, enter 7 
as the second indicator and sears (all lower case 
letters) in subfield 2. 


Indicators

First  Type of personal name entry element

     0 Forename 

     1 Surname 

     3 Family name 

Second  Thesaurus

     0 Library of Congress Subject Headings/LC
       authority files 

     1 LC subject headings for children's 
       literature 

     2 Medical Subject Headings/NLM authority files 

     3 National Agricultural Library subject 
       authority file 

     4 Source not specified 

     5 Canadian Subject Headings/NLC authority file 

     6 Répertoire des vedettes-matière/NLC 
       authority file 

     7 Source specified in subfield _2 


Subfields
  
     a Personal name (NR) 

     b Numeration (NR) 

     c Titles and other words associated with a 
       name (R) 

     d Dates associated with a name (NR) 

     e Relator term (R)

     j Attribution qualifier (R) 

     l Language of work (NR) 

     m Medium of performance for music (R) 

     n Number of a part/section of a work (R) 

     o Arranged statement for music (NR) 

     p Name of part/section of a work (R) 

     q Fuller form of name (NR) 

     r Key for music (NR) 

     s Version (NR) 

     t Title of a work (NR) 

     v Form subdivision (R) 

     x General subdivision (R) 

     y Chronological subdivision (R) 

     z Geographical subdivision (R) 

     2 Source of heading or term (NR) 


Punctuation

The field ends with a mark of punctuation 
(., !, ?, -) or a closing parenthesis. This mark of 
punctuation precedes subfield 2 when present.


Examples:

Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) 
and LC's Name Authority List are designed for LC's 
own collection and are used by many large public 
libraries, college and university libraries, and 
special libraries. LC's lists are comprehensive, 
and have a large number of free-floating 
subdivisions that can be added to names. 

     600 00 _aAesop.


     600 00 _aLouis		
            _bXIV,
            _cKing of France,
            _d1638-1715.


     600 00 _aJohn Paul
            _bII,
            _cPope,
            _d1920-
            _xJourneys
            _zUnited States.


     600 10 _aGrimm, Jacob,
            _d1785-1863.
            _tBremer Stadtmusikanten.
            _lEnglish.


     600 10 _aLeakey, L. S. B.
            _q(Louis Seymour Bazett),
            _d1903-1972
            _vDrama.


     600 10 _aD'Avila-Latourrette, Victor-Antoine
            _vFiction.


     600 10 _aGergely, Tibor,
            _d1900-
            _eill.


     600 10 _aAinsworth, Thomas H.,
            _cIII.


     600 10 _aBach, Johann Sebastian,
            _d1685-1750.
            _tInventions,
            _mharpsichord,
            _nBWV 787-801.


    600 10 _aShakespeare, William,
           _d1564-1616
           _xCharacters
           _xIago.


     600 10 _aShakespeare, William,
            _d1564-1616.
            _tWorks.
            _sMethuen.


     600 10 _aShakespeare, William,
            _d1564-1616
            _xStage history
            _yTo 1625.


     600 10 _aVaughan Williams, Ralph,
            _d1872-1958.
            _tSea songs,
            _mband;
            _oarr.


     600 30 _aSmith family.


     600 10 _aBeckett, Samuel, 1906-
            _tMalone meurt.


     600 10 _aTeach, Edward,
            _dd. 1718.


     600 00 _aHenry,
            _cInfante of Portugal,
            _d1394-1460.


     600 10 _aMagalhães, Fernão de,
            _dd. 1521.


Library of Congress Subject Headings for Children's
Literature or Annotated Card (AC) Headings 
generally use the LCSH name headings, but sometimes 
substitutes a more familiar version of the name or 
title in the AC heading. The last four headings 
above would be as follows in AC headings. 

     600 11 _aBeckett, Samuel, 1906-
            _tMalone dies.


     600 01 _aBlackbeard,
            _dd. 1718.


     600 01 _aHenry the Navigator,
            _d1394-1460.


     600 11 _aMagellan, Ferdinand,
            _dd. 1521.


Sears List of Subject Headings is designed
to meet the needs of small and medium-sized 
libraries. Sears provides a smaller list of 
subdivisions to use with personal names than LCSH. 

     600 17 _aDes Groseilliers, Mdard Chouart,
            _csieur,
            _db. 1618.
            _2sears


     600 17 _aRadisson, Pierre Esprit,
            _dca. 1636-1710.
            _2sears


     600 17 _aDavis, John W.
            _q(John William)
            _d1873-1955.
            _2sears


     600 17 _aBeethoven, Ludwig van,
            _d1770-1827.
            _2sears


     600 17 _aBeethoven, Ludwig van,
            _d1770-1827.
            _tSymphonies,
            _nno. 3, op. 55,
            _rE major.
            _2sears


     600 17 _aBeethoven, Ludwig van,
            _d1770-1827.
            _tEgmont.
            _pOverture.
            _2sears


     600 17 _aShakespeare, William,
            _d1564-1616
            _xTechnique.
            _2sears


     600 17 _aShakespeare, William,
            _d1564-1616
            _xStage history.
            _2sears


     600 17 _aAndersen, H. C.
            _q(Hans Christian),
            _d1805-1875.
            _tPrindsessen paa aerten.
            _lEnglish.
            _2sears