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Title: 455 - See From Tracing - Genre/Form Term (R)
Information:

The See From Tracing - Genre/Form Term (455 tag) of 
the MARC authority record contains a term not used as 
a subject access point. This term is linked to the 
proper term that can be used as a subject heading. 
Many of the subject headings established in the 
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) and 
in the Guidelines on Subject Access to Individual 
Works of Fiction, Drama, etc. contain variant 
terms including these unauthorized terms. The letters 
UF (use for) appear at the beginning of the list of 
unauthorized terms. Using the 455 tag creates a see 
reference taking the person who searches by the 
unauthorized term to the correct subject heading. 


Indicators
 
First  Undefined

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Second  Undefined

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Subfields

   Main term portion

     a Genre/form term (NR)  

   Subject subdivision portion

     v Form subdivision (R) 

     x General subdivision (R) 

     y Chronological subdivision (R) 

     z Geographical subdivision (R) 


Examples:

     155    _aLove stories
     455    _aRomance fiction
     455    _aRomances (Love stories)


     155    _aWestern stories
     455    _aWesterns


     155    _aWar stories
     455    _aAnti-war stories
     455    _aApocalyptic fantasies
     455    _aEnd-of-the-world fantasies


     155    _aParables
     455    _aCautionary tales and verse
     455    _aMoral and philosophical stories
     455    _aMorality tales


     155    _aTelevision plays
     455    _aTelevision drama


     155    _aWestern films
     455    _aWesterns


     155    _aSpy television programs
     455    _aEspionaage television programs


     155    _aRadio and television novels
     455    _aRadio novels
     455    _aTelevision novels