Information:
The 555 tag Cumulative Index/Finding Aids Note of
the MARC bibliographic record contains a note on
the presence of a cumulative index and/or finding
aids for the item being cataloged. For serials,
this field contains a statement of volumes and/or
dates covered and a statement of location of these
indexes. Indexes may be issued as part of an issue
of the serial or issued separately. For visual
materials or archival materials, this field
contains information identifying administrative and
intellectual control over the material being
described.
AACR2 covers the cumulative index note for serials
with rule 12.7B17.
RDA provides guidelines for recording this information
in 25.1.1.3.
Subfield a contains the statement of the index or
finding aid. Subfield b contains the availability
source which is the organizational unit or vendor
from which the finding aids may be obtained. A
citation to a publisher or unpublished index or
finding aid to the item being cataloged when it is
not cataloged with the item is contained in
subfield d. Subfield u contains a URL or URN that
provides electronic access data.
Indicators
First Display constant controller
blank Indexes
0 Finding aids
8 No display constant generated
Second Undefined
blank Undefined
Subfields
a Cumulative index/finding aids note (NR)
b Availability source (R)
d Bibliographic reference (NR)
u Uniform Resource Identifer (R)
Punctuation
This field ends with a period unless another mark
of punctuation (!, ?, -) is present.
Examples:
555 _aVols. 1-20, 1927-1947, in v. 24.
555 _aEach third volume is an index to all
preceding volumes.
555 _aIndex published separately every Dec.
555 _aSubject index, v. 1-11 in v. 13.
Author-title index, v. 1-11 in v. 14.
555 0 _dFlipwinkle, James, ed., Concordance
to the Jerome Manuscript (Harvard
University Press, 1946).
555 8 _aFinding aid available on the
Internet.
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss.eadmss.ms996001
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