Information:
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.
Chapter 9 of RDA, "Identifying Persons" contains guidelines on recording
names.
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)
f Date of a work (NR)
g Miscellaneous information (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)
u Affiliation (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 subdivision 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 _aAinsworth, Thomas H.,
_cIII.
600 10 _aBach, Johann Sebastian,
_d1685-1750.
_tInventions,
_mharpsichord,
_nBWV 787-801.
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,
_d-1718.
600 00 _aHenry,
_cInfante of Portugal,
_d1394-1460.
600 10 _aMagalhães, Fernão de,
_d-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 01 _aBlackbeard,
_d-1718.
600 01 _aHenry the Navigator,
_d1394-1460.
600 11 _aMagellan, Ferdinand,
_d-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.
LCSH
600 10 _aLincoln, Abraham,
_d1809-1865
_vViews on reconstruction.
Sears
600 17 _aLincoln, Abraham,
_d1809-1865.
_2sears
LCSH
600 10 _aShakespeare, Willima,
_d1564-1616
_xKnowledge
_xConduct of court proceedings.
Sears
600 17 _aShakespeare, Willima,
_d1564-1616
_xKnowledge.
_2sears
LCSH
600 10 _aKennedy, John F.
_q(John Fitzgerald),
_d1917-1963
_xIn mass media.
Sears
600 17 _a_aKennedy, John F.
_q(John Fitzgerald),
_d1917-1963.
_2sears
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