Appendix E - Format Changes

MARC 21 Classification

June 2021

This section is provided for the lists of format changes that accompany each update to the MARC 21 Format for Classification Data.

MARC 21 FORMAT FOR CLASSIFICATION DATA

FORMAT CHANGE LIST

Update No. 32, June 2021

This page documents the changes contained in the thirty-second update to the 1999 edition of the MARC 21 Format for Classification Data. Update No. 32 (June 2021) includes changes resulting from proposals that were considered by the MARC 21 community since the publication of Update No. 31 (December 2020).

Format changes in previous updates can be found on the MARC Format Overview page.

■ Editorial modifications:

The following fields do not have technical changes but contain editorial modifications (in red). A full description of editorial changes for each entry can be found in the linked MARC Proposal referenced.

Fields

685History Note (R) from Proposal 2021-01

Other pages

Introduction from Proposal 2021-01

Appendix D - Glossary from Proposal 2021-01

UPDATE 32 LOCAL PRINT GUIDE

The following sections and fields were created/changed in Update No. 32 and should be printed to keep a print copy of the format up-to-date. Changes appear in red.