Information:
The 546 Language Note tag of the MARC 21
bibliographic record contains a textual note giving
the language or languages of the item. The 546 tag
can also be used to describe the alphabet or script
used. With videorecordings, the 546 tag is also
used to tell that the video is closed captioned.
The information in the language note helps library
users determine whether the item is in a language
or form that they can use.
AACR2 covers the language note with rule X.7B2. The
X represents the chapter number depending on what
type of media the librarian is cataloging. Chapter
10, "Three-Dimensional Artefacts and Realia", does
not contain a language note.
RDA guideline 7.12.1.3 provides instructions for
recording the language of the content.
The 546 tag has two subfields, a and b. The text of
the language note goes into subfield a. Use
subfield b for information about the alphabet or
script used to record the language.
In addition, coded information about languages
appears in the 008 Fixed Fields tag and the 041
Language Code tag. The information in the 546 tag
must agree with these codes.
Indicators
First Undefined
blank Undefined
Second Undefined
blank Undefined
Subfields
a Language note (NR)
b Information code or alphabet (R)
Punctuation
This field ends with a period unless another mark
of punctuation (!, ?, -) is present.
Examples:
008/35-37 eng
041 0 _aeng_afre_ager_arum_aspa
546 _aEnglish, French, German, Rumanian,
and Spanish.
008/35-37 heb
041 0 _aheb_ager
546 _aHebrew and German.
008/35-37 spa
546 _aText in Spanish.
008/35-37 fre
041 0 _afre_aeng
546 _aFrench and English on facing pages.
008/35-37 fre
041 0 _afre_beng_bfre_bger
546 _aIn French; abstracts in French,
English, and German.
008/35-37 ger
546 _aIn German ;
_bFraktur.
008/35-37 ara
041 1 _aara_aeng_hara
546 _aArabic text, phonetic transcription,
and English translation.
008/35-37 eng
546 _aClosed-captioned.
008/35-37 fre
041 0 _afre_beng
546 _aEnglish subtitles.
008/35-37 ita
041 0 _dita
546 _aSung in Italian.
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