006–Books Dialog Box

The 006–Books dialog box is used to insert information about special aspects of the book, which cannot be inserted in field 008. The 006 Books dialog box is displayed when you double-click the 006 tag in the MARC Editor and the first position of the fixed field contains ‘a’ or ‘t’.

Select from the options in the following boxes to enter data in the 006 tag for a book:

• Form of material - Indicates the type of material.
• 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 is recorded for 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 or not 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 - 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.
• Festschrift - Indicates whether or not the work is a festschrift. A festschrift is defined as a complimentary or memorial publication usually in the form of a collection of essays, addresses, biographical, bibliographic scientific, or other contributions. A true festschrift generally mentions the person, institution, or society it commemorates as the chief source of information. Other indications that an item is a festschrift include phrases such as: papers in honor of, in memory of, commemorating, and their equivalents in foreign languages.
• 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 or not 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.