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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:31:25 -0500
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- From: "JUDITH HOPKINS AT SUNY BUFFALO" <ULCJH@UBVMS.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Description of Tags and Formats
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- In response to Colegate Spinks' request for information on the
- 008 field, that field IS an essential part of the USMARC formats; he
- can find a description of it in the various format documents, e.g.,
- USMARC FORMAT FOR BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATA; USMARC FORMAT FOR AUTHORITY DATA;
- etc. The following description is taken from the bibliographic format
- portion of USMARC CONCISE FORMAT FOR BIBLIOGRAPHIC, AUTHORITY, AND
- HOLDINGS DATA. There are similar paragraphs in the authority and
- Holdings portions of that volume.
-
- 008 FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS (NR)
-
- Forty character positions (00-39) that contain positionally-defined
- data elements that provide coded information about the record as a
- whole and about special bibliographic aspects of the item being
- cataloged. Character positions 00-17 and 35-39 are defined the same
- for all forms of material, with special considerations for position 06.
- Character positions 18-34 are generally defined differently for each
- specification, although some data elements are defined for more than
- one form of material. In such cases, they occupy the same character
- positions wherever they are defined.
-
- Undefined character positions contain either a blank or a fill
- character. All defined character positions must contain either a
- defined code or a fill character.
-
-
- I hope this helps.
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