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007 - Physical Description Fixed Field (NR)

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Codes that describe the physical characteristics of the copy of the bibliographic item for which holdings are recorded. See the description of field 007 in the MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data for complete character position definitions and the content designators defined for this field. The Category of material code (007/00) may be described textually in field 842 (Textual Physical Form Designator).