Tuesday Tags Review Quiz - March 2024

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* 1. There are 19 locations for which a single-character GAC has been assigned. What do the Geographic Area Codes "i" and "p" have in common?

both codes represent oceans

nothing other than being single-character GACs

both codes represent continents

both codes represent specific countries

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* 2. In a record for a book there is an 045 tag with the code "x8x8" in it. What does this mean?

that the book is a quarto

that the book was published in the 1800s

that the events in the book took place in the 1800s

that the events in the book took place in 1984

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* 3. You have a record with "ukr" in subfield b of the 040 tag. What does that mean?

that the record was created by a library with the OCLC symbol "ukr"

that the item represented by the record is in Ukranian

that the record was modified by a library with the OCLC symbol "ukr"

that the record was cataloged in Ukranian

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* 4. If an 024 tag has a value of "8" in the 1st indicator. What does that tell you about the identifier in subfield a?

that the source of the identifier will be found in subfield 2

that the source of the identifier is "unspecified."

that the identifier is "invalid."

that the source of the identifier is a non-US library

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* 5. What is a "control subfield'?

a subfield with a control number in it

a subfield to which authority control has been applied

a subfield that is defined in basically the same way for multiple fields in the MARC format.

a subfield where the source of a code is specified