006 and 008: Books

The Books definition of field 008/18-34 is used when Leader/06 (Type of record) contains code a (Language material) or t (Manuscript language material) and Leader/07 (Bibliographic level) contains code a (Monographic component part), c (Collection), d (Subunit), or m (Monograph). Field 008 positions 00-17 and 35-39 are defined the same in 008 fields for all materials.

Field 008/18-34 character positions are equivalent to those in field 006/01-17 when field 006/00 (Form of material) contains code a (Language material) or t (Manuscript language material). These character positions are defined for records in the Books type of material as listed in the table below.

This field has no indicators or subfields; the data elements are positionally defined.

Validity by material type: The character positions and associated codes are valid for Books.

Record requirements in National-level or Minimal-level records: either Mandatory or Optional, depending on the character position.

For details on the character positions and codes used in records for the Books material type, select a topic from the Definition column below:

BOOKS (BK)
006 Position:	008 Position:	Definition:
01-04	18-21	Illustrations
05	22	Target audience
06	23	Form of item
07-10	24-27	Nature of contents
11	28	Government publication
12	29	Conference publication
13	30	Festschrift
14	31	Index
15	32	Undefined
16	33	Literary form
17	34	Biography