008 - Continuing Resources (NR)
MARC 21 Bibliographic - Concise
2010
Character Positions
18 - Frequency
(006/01)
One-character alphabetic code that
indicates the frequency of an item; used in conjunction with
008/19 (Regularity).
# - No determinable
frequency
Used when the frequency is known to be
intentionally irregular.
a - Annual
b - Bimonthly
Includes publications whose frequency is
6, 7, or 8 numbers a year.
c - Semiweekly
d - Daily
e - Biweekly
f - Semiannual
Includes publications whose frequency is
2 numbers a year.
g - Biennial
h - Triennial
i - Three times a
week
j - Three times a
month
k - Continuously
updated
m - Monthly
Includes publications whose frequency is
9, 10, 11, or 12 numbers a year.
q - Quarterly
Includes publications whose frequency is
4 numbers a year.
s -
Semimonthly
t - Three times a
year
u - Unknown
w - Weekly
z - Other
| - No attempt to
code
19 - Regularity
(006/02)
One-character alphabetic code that
indicates the intended regularity of an item; used in conjunction
with 008/18 (Frequency).
n - Normalized
irregular
Predictable irregularity pattern.
r - Regular
u - Unknown
x - Completely
irregular
Used 1) when the frequency is known to
be intentionally irregular (008/18 is coded as #); or 2) when the
frequency in field 310 is expressed as numbers per
year.
| - No attempt to
code
20 - Undefined
(006/03)
Undefined; contains a blank (#) or a
fill character (|).
21 - Type of continuing
resource (006/04)
One-character alphabetic code that
indicates the type of continuing resource.
# - None of the
following
Also used for yearbooks and annual
reports.
d - Updating
database
l - Updating
loose-leaf
m - Monographic
series
n - Newspaper
p - Periodical
w - Updating Web
site
| - No attempt to
code
22 - Form of original item
(006/05)
One-character alphabetic code that
indicates the form of material in which an item was originally
published.
# - None of the
following
a - Microfilm
b - Microfiche
c -
Microopaque
d - Large
print
e - Newspaper
format
f - Braille
o - Online
q - Direct electronic
s - Electronic
| - No attempt to
code
23 - Form of item
(006/06)
One-character alphabetic code that
specifies the form of material for the item being
described.
# - None of the
following
a - Microfilm
b - Microfiche
c -
Microopaque
d - Large
print
f - Braille
o - Online
q - Direct electronic
r - Regular print
reproduction
Eye-readable print, such as a
photocopy.
s - Electronic
| - No attempt to
code
24 - Nature of entire work
(006/07)
One-character alphabetic code that
indicates the nature of an item if it consists entirely
of a certain type of material. If the item can be considered more
than one type of material, the types are recorded in 008/25-27
(Nature of contents) and 008/24 position is coded blank
(#).
# - Not
specified
a -
Abstracts/summaries
Abstracts or summaries of other
publications.
b -
Bibliographies
c - Catalogs
d - Dictionaries
Also includes glossaries or
gazetteers.
e -
Encyclopedias
f - Handbooks
g - Legal
articles
h - Biography
i - Indexes
Index to bibliographical material other
than itself (e.g., an indexing journal).
k -
Discographies
l - Legislation
Full or partial texts of enactments of
legislative bodies or texts of rules and regulations issued by
executive or administrative agencies.
m - Theses
Thesis, dissertation, or work identified
as having been created to satisfy the requirements for an
academic certification or degree.
n - Surveys of literature in
a subject area
Authored surveys that summarize what has
been published about a subject
o - Reviews
Critical reviews of published or
performed works (e.g., books, films, sound recordings, theater,
etc.).
p - Programmed
texts
q -
Filmographies
r -
Directories
s - Statistics
t - Technical
reports
u -
Standards/specifications
v - Legal cases and case
notes
w - Law reports and
digests
y - Yearbooks
z - Treaties
Treaties or accords negotiated between
two or more parties to settle a disagreement, establish a
relationship, grant rights, etc.
5 - Calendars
6 - Comics/graphic
novels
| - No attempt to
code
25-27 - Nature of contents
(006/08-10)
Up to three one-character alphabetic
codes (recorded in alphabetical order) that indicate that a work
contains certain types of materials. If fewer than three
codes are assigned, the codes are left justified and each unused
position contains a blank (#).
# - Not
specified
a -
Abstracts/summaries
Abstracts or summaries of
other publications.
b -
Bibliographies
c - Catalogs
d - Dictionaries
Also used for a glossary or a
gazetteer.
e -
Encyclopedias
f - Handbooks
g - Legal
articles
h - Biography
i - Indexes
Index to bibliographical material other
than itself (e.g., an indexing journal).
k -
Discographies
l - Legislation
Includes of full or partial texts of
enactments of legislative bodies, published either in statute or
in code form, or texts of rules and regulations issued by
executive or administrative agencies.
m - Theses
Thesis, dissertation, or work identified
as having been created to satisfy the requirements for an
academic certification or degree.
n - Surveys of literature in
a subject area
Includes authored surveys that summarize
what has been published about a subject
o - Reviews
Includes critical reviews of published
or performed works (e.g., books, films, sound recordings,
theater, etc.).
p - Programmed
texts
q -
Filmographies
r -
Directories
s - Statistics
t - Technical
reports
u -
Standards/specifications
v - Legal cases and case
notes
w - Law reports and
digests
y - Yearbooks
z - Treaties
Includes treaties or accords negotiated
between two or more parties to settle a disagreement, establish a
relationship, grant rights, etc.
5 - Calendars
6 - Comics/graphic
novels
||| - No attempt to
code
28 - Government
publication (006/11)
One-character alphabetic code that
indicates whether an item is published or produced by or for an
international, national, provincial, state, or local government
agency, or by any subdivision of such a body, and, if so, the
jurisdictional level of the agency.
# - Not a government
publication
a - Autonomous or
semi-autonomous component
c - Multilocal
f -
Federal/national
i - International
intergovernmental
l - Local
m - Multistate
o - Government
publication-level undetermined
s - State, provincial,
territorial, dependent, etc.
u - Unknown if item is
government publication
z - Other
| - No attempt to
code
29 - Conference
publication (006/12)
One-character numeric code that
indicates whether an item consists of the proceedings, reports,
or summaries of a conference.
0 - Not a conference
publication
1 - Conference
publication
| - No attempt to
code
30-32 - Undefined
(006/13-15)
Undefined; each contains a blank (#) or
a fill character (|).
33 - Original alphabet or
script of title (006/16)
One-character alphabetic code that
indicates the original alphabet or script of the language of the
title on the source item upon which the key title (field 222) is
based.
# - No alphabet or script
given/No key title
May relate to the title proper in field
245 when no key title is present.
a - Basic Roman
Includes no diacritics or special
characters.
b - Extended Roman
Includes diacritics and special
characters.
Used if the language itself has
diacritics even if the title in hand does not contain any
characters from the extended alphabet.
c - Cyrillic
d - Japanese
e - Chinese
f - Arabic
g - Greek
h - Hebrew
i - Thai
j - Devanagari
k - Korean
l - Tamil
u - Unknown
z - Other
Also used when the title incorporates
words from more than one alphabet or script.
| - No attempt to
code
34 - Entry convention
(006/17)
One-character numeric code that
indicates whether the item was cataloged according to successive
entry, latest entry, or integrated entry cataloging
conventions.
0 - Successive entry
New bibliographic record is created each
time 1) a title changes, or 2) a corporate body used as main
entry or uniform title qualifier, changes. The earlier or later
title or author/title is recorded in a linking field (field
780/785) on each record.
1 - Latest entry
Cataloged under its latest (most recent)
title or issuing body (pre-AACR cataloging rules). All former
titles and/or issuing bodies are given in notes (fields 247, 547,
and 550).
2 - Integrated entry
Cataloged under its latest (most recent)
title and/or responsible person or corporate body. Used for
integrating resources and electronic serials that do not retain
their earlier titles.
| - No attempt to
code