1. DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA FIELD:
Variable size
Essential filling
2. DATA ELEMENT DEFINITION:
Number identifying the document volume that is part of a collection treated at a monographic level. The term “volume” refers to the volume itself or its possible subdivisions such as tome, part, etc.
3. NOTES:
a) Filling in this field becomes mandatory when the document is a monograph belonging to a collection, or an analytic of a monograph belonging to a collection;
b) Record the volume, tome, or part preceded by the abbreviation that identifies it, such as:
| Description | Abbreviation |
| Volume | v |
| Tomo | t |
| Part | pt |
c) If the volume has subdivisions, record them separated by a comma and with an intervening space;
Example:
v. 3 v.2, pt.1
d) When the total number of volumes belonging to a collection is known, this information should be recorded in the Total Number of Volumes field;
Example: 7 v
e) When the total number of volumes is known, in the case of multivolume monographs, this information should be recorded in the Volume field.
Example: 3 v
