Tuesday Tags Review Quiz - January 2024

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* 1. What does it mean if both indicators on an 016 tag are blank?

the agency that assigned the number in subfield a is indicated elsewhere in the tag

the number in subfield a was assigned by the Library and Archives of Canada

nothing - both indicators are undefined for this tag

the number in subfield a was assigned by the Library of Congress

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* 2. You have an item in hand which is a new edition but it is printed with the LCCN of a previous edition of the same title. Where does the printed LCCN number from your item belong?

it should not be in the record at all

it belongs in 010 subfield z

it belongs in 010 subfield a

it belongs in 010 subfield b

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* 3. In subfield 2 of an 016 tag it says "mbjfk." What does that tell you?

that the record was created by a library in Mozambique

that the number in subfield a was assigned by the Kennedy Presidential Library

that the record is for a video about John F. Kennedy

that the control number of the item in the OCLC Worldcat is "mbjfk"

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* 4. In subfield 2 of an 015 tag it says "anb." What does that tell you?

that the record was created by the Albert N. Berry Library

that the item contains an annotated bibliography

that the title is included in the Australian National Bibliography

that subfield a contains the control number of the record for this item in the online catalog of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (in Wien, Austria)

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* 5. Will the MARC21 documentation from the Library of Congress explain what is in an 019 tag?

no, because there is no such tag as an 019

yes, because it is the source of all things MARC

no, because the Library of Congress doesn't maintain MARC documentation

no, because it is a tag defined by OCLC