008–Books Dialog Box

The 008–Books dialog box is used to insert information about the book as a whole or about special aspects of the 1XX heading or 4XX/5XX tracing fields. The 008–Books dialog box is displayed when you double-click the 008 tag in the MARC Editor and LDR/06 contains ‘a’ or ‘t’.

Select options in the following boxes to enter information in the 008 tag for a book:

Entry date - Six digits specify the date the record was first entered into machine-readable form. The date is given in the pattern yymmdd 
(yy for the year, mm for the month, and dd for the day).

Type of date - A one-character alphabetic code categorizes the type of date given in character positions 008/07-10 and 008/11-14. For serially-issued item, the code in 008/06 also indicates the publication status.

Date 1 - Four digits indicate a date appropriate for the type of item being recorded. Missing digits are represented by the character u. For most records, the date is derived from information in field 260, field 362, or from note fields. For serially issued items, this box contains the beginning date of publication (chronological designation). For reprints of serials and for reproductions of serials being described in the body of the entry, the beginning date is entered in this position.

Date 2 - Four digits indicate a date appropriate for the type of item being recorded. Missing digits are represented by the character u. For most records, the date is derived from information in field 260, field 362, or from note fields. For serially issued items, this box contains the ending date of publication (chronological designation). For reprints of serials and for reproductions of serials being described in the body of the entry, the ending date is entered in this position.

Place of publication - A two- or three-character alphabetic code indicates the place of publication, production, or execution. The place code is an authoritative-agency data element. The source of the code is the MARC 21 Code List for Countries that is maintained by the Library of Congress. Choice of a MARC 21 code is generally related to information in field 260.

Illustrations - Indicates the presence of types of illustrations in the item represented by the record. Information for this character position is usually derived from terms in field 300. Up to four codes may be recorded, in alphabetical order. If fewer than four codes are assigned, the codes are left-justified and unused positions contain blanks. If more than four codes are appropriate, only the first four are recorded.

Audience - A one-character alphabetic code describes the intellectual level of the target audience for which the material is intended. When items with factual content are considered appropriate for more than one target audience, the code indicates the primary target audience. If the record has both reading grade level and interest age or interest grade level information present in the 521 (Target Audience Note) field, 008/22 is coded based on the interest age or interest grade information.

Form of item - A one-character alphabetic code specifies the form of material for the item in hand.

Nature of contents - One-character alphabetic codes indicate that an item contains certain types of materials. Generally, a specific code is used if a significant part of the item is the type of material represented by the code. Information for these character positions is usually derived from other areas of the bibliographic record (for example, field 245, 5XX fields, or 6XX fields). Up to four codes may be recorded, in alphabetical order. If fewer than four codes are assigned, the codes are left-justified and unused positions contain blanks. If more than four codes are appropriate to an item, the four most significant are selected. If no codes are applicable, all positions contain blanks.

Government publication - Indicates whether the item is published or produced by or for an international, national, state, or local government agency, or by any subdivision of such a body. The code also describes the jurisdictional level of the government agency associated with the item.

Conference publication - A one-character numeric code indicates whether a work consists of the proceedings, reports, or summaries of a conference. The following types of publications are considered to be conference publications: proceedings, partial collections, or collections of preprints.

Festschift - A one-character numeric code indicates whether or not the work is a festschrift. A festschrift is a complimentary or memorial publication usually in the form of a collection of essays, addresses, biographical, bibliographic scientific, or other contributions.

Index - A one-character numeric code indicates whether or not an item includes an index to its own contents. Information for this data element is derived from an entry in another part of the bibliographic record.

Literary form - A one-character numeric code indicates whether the item is a work of fiction. The information for this data element may sometimes be derived from the presence of the subject subdivision fiction in a subject added entry A secondary entry to the main entry in a MARC record. field (6XX).

Biography - Indicates whether or not an item contains biographical material, and if so, what the biographical characteristics are.

Language - A three-character alphabetic code indicates the language of the item. The source of the code is the MARC 21 Code List of Languages that is maintained by the Library of Congress. Choice of a MARC 21 code is based on the predominant language of the item. When an item contains text or other worded information in more than one language, or is a translation, textual information regarding the language is usually given in field 500 or field 546. If more than one language code is appropriate, all appropriate codes are given in field 04 and the first one is recorded in 008/35-37.

Modified record - Indicates whether any data on a bibliographic record is a modification of information that appeared on the item being cataloged or that was intended to be included in the machine-readable record. Such modifications include: the romanization of data that originally appeared in a non-roman script, substitution of characters available for those characters that could not be converted to machine-readable form or shortening of records because the amount of data exceeded a system-imposed maximum allowable length.

Cataloging source - Indicates the original cataloging source A code stored in tag 040 $a that tells who created the record. These codes are governed by the MARC code list for libraries. of the record. If the cataloging source is known, it is identified in subfield ‡a of field 040.