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Appendix B Bibliographic and authority tags
This appendix contains information about the following cataloging information:
Bibliographic tags: MARC tags used in bibliographic records; reading and
interest levels and the 521 tag; reading programs and the 526 tag; searchable tags;
MARC tags used in Cataloging and OPAC searches; Authority tags: MARC tags
used in Authority records.
Bibliographic tags
The bibliographic tags recognized by Cataloging and the subfields on which they
are indexed are identified and explained starting on page 628.
Use the following key to interpret the Bibliographic tags table column headings:
Key for the bibliographic tag description table
Column Description
No. This column contains the tag number.
Description This column contains the name of the tag according to the MARC 21 Format
for Bibliographic Data publication.
Rep This column identifies each tag as repeatable or nonĆrepeatable.
D Y: Repeatable
D N: NonĆrepeatable
Pos1 and Pos 2 These columns contain the default contents of the tag's first and second
indicator positions, respectively.
Note: This symbol
∅ represents a blank space and is only required when you
are modifying templates during System Setup.
Valid This column contains the subfields allowed in each tag.
Nonrep This column contains the nonrepeatable subfields for each tag.
Indexed This column contains the indexed subfields for each tag. These are the
subfields used to conduct searches.
Note: N/A is used to identify tags without subfields. This symbol only appears
in the subfield columns (Valid, Nonrep, and Indexed).
Important: The numbers entered in the indicator columns (Pos1 and Pos2) are the
bibliographic template defaults. Other values are available.