Character Positions |
Music 00 - Form of material 01-02 - Form of composition 03 - Format of music 04 - Music parts 05 - Target audience 06 - Form of item 07-12 - Accompanying matter 13-14 - Literary text for sound recordings 15 - Undefined 16 - Transposition and arrangement 17 - Undefined Continuing resources 00 - Form of material 01 - Frequency 02 - Regularity 03 - Undefined 04 - Type of continuing resource 05 - Form of original item 06 - Form of item 07 - Nature of entire work 08-10 - Nature of contents 11 - Government publication 12 - Conference publication 13-15 - Undefined 16 - Original alphabet or script of title 17 - Entry convention Visual materials 00 - Form of material 01-03 - Running time 04 - Undefined 05 - Target audience 06-10 - Undefined 11 - Government publication 12 - Form of item 13-15 - Undefined 16 - Type of visual material 17 - Technique |
Eighteen character positions (00-17) that provide for coding information about special aspects of the item being cataloged that cannot be coded in field 008 (Fixed-Length Data Elements). It is used in cases when an item has multiple characteristics (e.g., printed material with an accompanying cassette or a map that is issued serially) and to record the coded serial aspects of nontextual continuing resources.
It is also used to record the coded computer file aspects of electronic items coded in Leader/06 as something other than code m. The fixed-length data elements defined for field 006, like the corresponding field 008 data elements, are potentially useful for retrieval and data management purposes.
Field has a generic tree structure, whereby the code given in 006/00 (Form of material) determines the data elements defined for subsequent character positions. Except for code s (Serial/Integrating resource), the codes in field 006/00 correspond to those in Leader/06 (Type of record). For each occurrence of field 006, the codes defined for character positions 01-17 will be the same as those defined in the corresponding field 008, character positions 18-34. Configurations of field 006 are given in the following order: books, computer files/electronic resources, maps, music, continuing resources, visual materials, and mixed materials.
Data elements in field 006 are positionally defined. Character position 00 contains a code that identifies a form of material. The fill character (|) is not allowed in this position. The fill character may be used in any other character position when the cataloging agency makes no attempt to code the position.
Only character position 00 is described in this section. The other character positions are described in the corresponding field 008 (Fixed-Length Data Elements) position descriptions. In all cases, field 006 positions 01-17 relate to positions 18-34 in one of the field 008 configurations. The relationship between field 006/00 (Form of material) codes and field 008 configurations is indicated below.
| Field 006/00 - Form of material | Field 008/18-34 configuration |
| a - Language material | Books |
| c - Notated music | Music |
| d - Manuscript notated music | Music |
| e - Cartographic material | Maps |
| f - Manuscript cartographic material | Maps |
| g - Projected medium | Visual Materials |
| i - Nonmusical sound recording | Music |
| j - Musical sound recording | Music |
| k - Two-dimensional nonprojectable graphic | Visual Materials |
| m - Computer file/Electronic resource | Computer Files |
| o - Kit | Visual Materials |
| p - Mixed material | Mixed Materials |
| r - Three-dimensional artifact or naturally occurring object | Visual Materials |
| s - Serial/Integrating resource | Continuing Resources |
| t - Manuscript language material | Books |
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