007 Physical Description Fixed Field (Kit) (R)

Record Type
BIB
Input Standards
Field (Full/Minimal)
Optional/Optional
1st Indicator Undefined
	Undefined
2nd Indicator Undefined
	Undefined
Subfields (R=Repeatable NR=Nonrepeatable)		Input Standards (Full/Minimal)
ǂa	Category of material (007/00) (NR)	Mandatory/Mandatory
ǂb	Specific material designation (007/01) (NR)	Mandatory/Mandatory

Definition

ALL

The physical characteristics of a kit. Field 007 is valid in all formats so you can code for the physical characteristics of the parts of an item such as accompanying material.

Example

007			o ǂb u
[Language instructional kit consisting of 1 activity book, 1 assessment book, 1 song book, 5 readers, 49 flashcards, 5 posters, 1 DVD, and 1 CD-ROM]

1st Indicator

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

	Undefined

2nd Indicator

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

	Undefined

Subfields

ǂa Category of material

A one-character alphabetic code that indicates the category of material to which the item belongs is kit

o

Kit. The item is a kit, which is defined as a mixture of various components issued as a unit and intended primarily for instructional purposes. No one component is identifiable as the predominant component of the item. Examples are packages of assorted materials, such as a set of K-12 social studies curriculum material (books, workbooks, guides, activities, etc.), or packages of educational test materials (tests, answer sheets, scoring guides, score charts, interpretative manuals, etc.).

ǂb Specific material designation

A one-character alphabetic code that describes the special class of material (usually the class of physical object) to which an item belongs.

u	Unspecified. The specific material designation for the kit is not specified.
	No attempt to code

Indexing

For indexing and searching information, see Searching WorldCat Indexes, Fields 001-007.

MARC 21

For more information, including content designator history, see MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data, field 007 (Kit).

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