337 - Media Type (R)
MARC 21 Bibliographic - Concise
2009
This is an ARCHIVED VERSION of the
2009/2010 electronic edition of the MARC 21 Concise
Formats. Please see loc.gov/marc/concise/
for the most up-to-date version of the electronic MARC 21
Concise Formats.
Media type reflects the general type of intermediation
device required to view, play, run, etc., the content of a
resource. Used as an alternative to or in addition to the coded
expression of Media type in field 007/00 (Category of
material). Field 337 information enables indication of more
specific media types and media types from various lists.
Multiple media types from the same source vocabulary or code
list may be recorded in the same field in separate occurrences
of subfield $a (Media type term) and subfield $b (Media type
code). Terms from different source vocabularies are recorded in
separate occurrences of the field.
Indicators
First - Undefined
# - Undefined
Second - Undefined
# - Undefined
Subfield Codes
$a - Media type term (R)
$b - Media type code (R)
$3 - Materials specified (NR)
$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)
Examples
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##$avideo$bv$2rdamedia |
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##$bn$2rdamedia
$3liner notes |
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##$aunmediated$2rdamedia
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