006–Visual Materials Dialog Box

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

Select from the options in the following boxes to enter data in the 006 tag for visual materials:

Form of material - Indicates the type of material being described.

Running time -Specifies the total running time of a motion picture or a video recording. The length is given as a three-digit number, right-justified, and unused positions contain zeros.

Audience - Describes the target audience for which the material is intended. It is used primarily for educational audiovisual materials. When items with factual content are considered appropriate for more than one target audience, the code is recorded for the highest level appropriate.

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, and, if so, describes the jurisdictional level of the agency.

Form of item - Specifies the form of material for the item in hand.

Type of visual material - Indicates the type of visual material being described.

Technique -Indicates the technique used in creating motion in motion pictures or video recordings.