Authority Tutorial
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Final Review

By now, you have reviewed the basic terminology, structure and rules of the USMARC authority format. The MARC authority record below should look familiar to you. Please fill in the tags, indicators and subfield codes with the correct values. Then click on SEND to check your answers.

Tag 0
Type: z
Roman: |
Govt agn: |
Series: n
Ser num: n
 Upd status: a
Ref status: a
Auth status: a
Auth/ref: a
Name: a
Enc lvl: n
Mod rec:
Subj: a
Geo subd: n
Subdiv tp: n
 Source:
Name use: a
Subj use: a
Ser use: b
Rules: c

0   n 94048351
1 Smith-Broersma, Margaret, ‡ 1952-
4 Broersma, Margaret Smith-, ‡ 1952-
6   Devotions for the blended family, 1994: ‡ CIP t.p. (Margaret Smith-Broersma) data sheet (b.1952)