583 Action Note

Field definition and scope:

Field 583 contains information about processing and reference actions, such as a brief statement about solicitation to acquire material, whether the solicitation is active or inactive, and the date of the last item of correspondence.

This field is also used to record information about preservation actions relating to an item, such as review of condition, queuing for preservation, and completion of preservation.

Field 583 is repeatable to record information about different actions.

Standard Terminology may be used and the authority for the terminology may be indicated in subfield $2.

This field is identical to field 583 (Action Note) defined in the MARC 21 Format for Holdings Data.

The National level record requirement for this field is Optional.

Field 583 is repeatable.

Guidelines for applying content designators:

For indicator and subfield code definitions and examples, National-level (NLR) and Minimal-level (MLR) record requirements, and designator repeatability, see table below:

Position	Description	NLR	MLR	Repeatability
Field 583	Action Note	O	O	R
Indicator:
First	Privacy	M
#	No information provided	A
0	Private	A
1	Not private	A

Second	Undefined; contains a blank	M

Subfield code:
$a	Action	A	O	NR
$b	Action identification	A	O	R
$c	Time/date of action	A	O	R
$d	Action interval	A	O	R
$e	Contingency for action	A	O	R
$f	Authorization	A	O	R
$h	Jurisdiction	A	O	R
$i	Method of action	A	O	R
$j	Site of action	A	O	R
$k	Action agent	A	O	R
$l	Status	A	O	R
$n	Extent	A	O	R
$o	Type of unit	A	O	R
$u	Uniform Resource Identifier	O	O	R
$x	Nonpublic note	A	O	R
$z	Public note	A	O	R
$2	Source of term	O	O	NR
$3	Materials specified	O	O	NR
$5	Institution to which field applies	A	O	NR
$6	Linkage	A	O	NR
$8	Field link and sequence number	O	O	R

Input conventions:

Punctuation

Past actions

Linking to Item Information fields

Embedded Holdings Information

Content designator history:

Archival and manuscripts control records created prior to the definition of field 583 in 1983 may contain actions data identified by the following obsolete content designators:

008/30 Case file

008/32 Processing status

008/33 Collection status

543 Solicitation Information Note

Subfields $u - Uniform Resource Identifier

$2 - Source of term

In 2000, subfield $u was defined to contain the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and subfield $2 was defined to contain a MARC code that identifies the source of the term used to record the action information.

First Indicator - Privacy [new, 2004]