BibFormats

007  Physical Description Fixed Field (Kit) (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 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.

blank character

Undefined

2nd Indicator

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

blank character

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.

fill character

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).