Tuesday Tags Review Quiz - December 2024

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* 1. Position 30 of an 008 tag for a BKS format record indicates if the item is (or is not) a festschrift. What is that?

a work issued on the occasion of an anniversary or similar celebration

a work that embodies the results of research, issued in honor of a person, an institution, or a society and which generally mentions the person, institution, or society it commemorates on the title page, cover, etc.

a complimentary or memorial publication usually in the form of a collection of essays, addresses, or biographical, bibliographic, scientific, or other contributions

all of the above are true

none of the above are true

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* 2. How do you know what the codes in an 007 tag indicate?

there is a standard definition for each position in the 007 tag

the format of the record (BKS, VIS, REC, etc.) determines how each position is defined

the first character in the tag tells you what kind of material is being described and the definition of each position is defined for that material type in Bibliographic Formats & Standards

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* 3. What can you conclude from knowing that positions 18-20 in the 008 tag of a VIS format record contain "nnn"?

that the work being described is a movie that runs for an unknown amount of time

that the work being described is not a video recording or a movie

that the work being described is on nitrate film

that the work being described was issued by a tribal government

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* 4. Which of the following statements about the 006 tag are true?

it is used for the "additional" characteristics of an an item that cannot be coded in the fixed field

there can be more than one 006 tag in a single bibliographic record

data elements in field 006 are positionally defined

all of the above are TRUE

all of the above are FALSE