801 ORIGINATING SOURCE

This field contains an indication of the origin of the record, including one of the following: the agency

that created the data, the agency that transcribed the data into machine-readable form, any agency that

has modified the original record/data, and the agency issuing the present record.

Occurrence

Mandatory. Repeatable.

Indicators

Indicator 1: blank (not defined)

Indicator 2: Function indicator

0 Original cataloguing agency

1 Transcribing agency

2 Modifying agency

3 Issuing agency

Subfields

$a Country

The country of the issuing agency in two-character coded form. See Appendix B for details.

Not repeatable. Not repeatable

$b Agency

Since there are no internationally accepted codes, the codes from USMARC Code List for

Organizations are recommended. Otherwise, the full name of the agency or a national code

may be used. Not repeatable

$c Date of transaction

This subfield is used when possible to indicate when a modification was made or a record

was issued. The data should be recorded according to ISO 8601-1989 in all-numeric form

without separators between year, month, and day, i.e. YYYYMMDD. Not repeatable

Notes on Field Contents

In many cases the same agency will have carried out some or all indicated functions; however, the

field should be repeated only when there are changes to transaction dates, cataloguing rules or

formats; where there are no changes only the earliest occurrence of the field should be included.

Related Fields

005

VERSION IDENTIFIER

100 GENERAL PROCESSING DATA, Date Entered on File (character positions 0-7)

The date in Field 100 may be the same as the transcription date but it should be repeated in field 801.