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.

Indexing

For indexing and searching information, see Searching WorldCat Indexes, field 007.

MARC 21

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

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