BibFormats

385  Audience Characteristics (R)

Record Type

BIB

Input Standards

Field (Full/Minimal)
Optional/Optional
1st Indicator  Undefined
blank character Undefined
2nd Indicator  Undefined
blank character Undefined
Subfields (R=Repeatable  NR=Nonrepeatable) Input Standards (Full/Minimal)
ǂa Audience term (R) Required if applicable/Required if applicable
ǂb Audience code (R) Required if applicable/Required if applicable
ǂm Demographic group term (NR) Required if applicable/Required if applicable
ǂn Demographic group code (NR) Required if applicable/Required if applicable
ǂ0 Authority record control number or standard number (R) Optional/Optional
ǂ1 Real World Object URI (R) Optional/Optional
ǂ2 Source (NR) Required if applicable/Required if applicable
ǂ3 Materials specified (NR) Required if applicable/Required if applicable
ǂ6 Linkage (NR) System supplied/System supplied
ǂ7 Data provenance (R) Optional/Optional
ǂ8 Field link and sequence number (NR) Optional/Optional

Definition

A category of persons for which a resource is intended or a category of persons representing the intellectual level for which the content of a resource is considered appropriate.

If a demographic group is not specified then multiple audience characteristics from the same source vocabulary or code list may be recorded in the same field in separate occurrences of subfield ǂa and subfield ǂb. If a demographic group is specified then the characteristics in the field must all come from the same group. Terms from different source vocabularies are recorded in separate occurrences of the field.

For guidance on assigning demographic group terms, see the Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms Manual.

For information on punctuation, see the Punctuation section below.

1st Indicator

Undefined. The 1st indicator position is undefined and contains a blank.

blank character

Undefined

2nd Indicator

Undefined. The 2nd indicator position is undefined and contains a blank.

blank character

Undefined

Subfields

 
ǂa Audience term

Intended audience of the work being described. Repeatable if an audience falls into multiple demographic groups.

245 0 0 My first book of limericks
385     Children ǂ2 lcsh
245 0 0 Creative color for the oil painter
385     Painters ǂ2 lcsh
245 0 0 Health care and HIV : ǂb nutritional guide for providers and clients
385     HIV Long-Term Survivors ǂa Caregivers ǂ2 mesh
385     HIV-positive persons ǂa Caregivers ǂ2 lcsh
ǂb Audience code

Code representing intended audience of the work being described.

245 0 0 Music therapy handbook / ǂc edited by Barbara L. Wheeler
385     Music therapist ǂb 076.127-014 ǂ2 dot
ǂm Demographic group term

A designator for a demographic group (e.g., an age group, a religious group) to which the terms and codes in subfields ǂa or ǂb belong.

245 1 0 Essential math, science, and computer terms for college freshmen
385     ǂm Educational level group ǂa College Freshmen ǂ2 ericd
245 0 0 Creative color for the oil painter
385     ǂm Occupational/field of activity group ǂa Painters ǂ2 lcsh
245 1 0 Inglés para niños
385     ǂm Age group ǂa Children ǂ2 ericd
385     ǂm Language group ǂa Spanish Speaking ǂ2 ericd
ǂn Demographic group code

A code designating the demographic group (e.g., an age group, a religious group) to which the terms and codes in subfields ǂa or ǂb belong. For guidance on assigning demographic group codes, see section L 465, Categories of Terms, in the Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms Manual.

245 1 0 Talks to teeners : ǂb chapel talks delivered during morning devotions at the Christian High School, Grand Rapids, Michigan
385     ǂn age ǂa adolescent ǂb d ǂ2 marctarget
245 1 0 Essential Spanish for policemen, lawyers, and judges
385     ǂn occ ǂa Police ǂa Lawyers ǂa Judges ǂ2 lcsh
ǂ0 Authority record control number or standard number

For information about subfield ǂ0, see Control Subfields.

245 0 0 Janet Suzeman on acting in Shakespearian comedy
385     Actors ǂ0 (DLC)sh 85000744 ǂ2 lcsh
ǂ1 Real World Object URI

For information about subfield ǂ1, see Control Subfields.

ǂ2 Source

MARC code that identifies the source of the term or code used to record intended audience information. See Subject Heading and Term Source Codes and Target Audience Code and Term Source Codes.

For more information about subfield ǂ2, see Control Subfields.

245 0 0 Buddhist reader for young Buddhists
385     ǂm Religious group ǂa Buddhists ǂ2 lcsh
385     ǂm Age group ǂa Youth ǂ2 lcsh
ǂ3 Materials specified

For information about subfield ǂ3, see Control Subfields.

ǂ6 Linkage

Data that link fields when non-Latin script is entered. This subfield is system supplied and does not appear in OCLC online displays. Do not manually add subfield ǂ6. For more information about subfield ǂ6, see Control Subfields.

ǂ7 Data provenance

For information about subfield ǂ7, see the Data Provenance Subfields section of Control Subfields.


ǂ8 Field link and sequence number

For information about subfield ǂ8, see Control Subfields.

Punctuation

For records containing or omitting punctuation, follow these instructions:

  • Include incidental punctuation needed within any subfields, e.g., commas, periods (following abbreviations or initials), etc.
  • Omit punctuation preceding each subfield unless the preceding subfield ends with an ellipsis, exclamation point, hyphen, period (following an abbreviation or initial), question mark, closing bracket, or closing parenthesis
  • Omit the terminal period at the end of the field unless the last word is an abbreviation or initial
385     HIV Long-Term Survivors ǂa Caregivers ǂ2 mesh

For more information on punctuation, including OCLC policy, see section 2.8, Punctuation.

Indexing

For indexing and searching information, see Searching WorldCat Indexes, field 385.

MARC 21

For more information, including content designator history, see MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data, field 385.