007–Tactile Material Dialog Box

The 007–Tactile Material dialog box is used to insert special information about the physical characteristics of material intended to be read or interpreted by touch. The 007 Tactile Material dialog box is displayed when you double-click the 007 tag in the MARC Editor and the first position of the fixed field contains ‘f’.

The following elements are located on the 007–Tactile Material dialog box:

Category of material - Indicates the category of material to which the item belongs. The meanings of the remaining character positions in field 007 depend on the value in this character position.

Specific material designation - Indicates the specific material designation of the item. The specific material designation describes the special class of material (usually the class of physical object) to which an item belongs.

Braille writing class - Indicates the family of braille to which the item belongs. This is not the particular braille coded, but the type of braille codes used, representing different types of written symbols.

Level of contraction - Indicates whether contractions are used. Contractions are abbreviations consisting of one or more braille or Moon characters to represent common letter combinations.

Braille music format - A three-character code indicates the braille music format of the item. The music formats are the way measures, section, parts, and related information, such as words, are presented in relation to each other. Up to three formats may be indicated, left justified in order of predominance.

Physical characteristics - A one-character code indicates other special physical characteristics about the braille.