Follett VERSION 6.00 - Manual (Page 634)

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Reading and interest levels and the 521 tag
The Target Audience Note (521 tag) in the MARC 21 bibliographic record
contains information about reading and interest levels. The 521 tag is a repeatable
tag. Decide what type of reading or interest level that you will be putting in the
tag, and set the first indicator accordingly. Then enter the value in subfield a. The
following table outlines some of the possible indicator and value combinations.
Reading and interest levels
Target Audience
Information
First
Indicator
Subfield Information
Reading Grade
Level
0 _a (R) Any value or range of values between 0.1 and 20.0.
Interest Grade
Level
2 _a (R) Must contain one of the following:
D Preschool
D K-3
D 3-6
D All Juvenile
D 5-8
D 7-10
D All Secondary
D All Grades
D Young Adult
D Adult
D Professional
Lexile Measures 8 _a (R) Can include up to a four digit Lexile value, one of the
following two letter prefixes, or both (e.g. AD 200).*
AD-Adult Directed
BR-Beginning Reading
IG-Illustrated Glossary
NC-NonĆConforming Text
NP-NonĆProse
_b (NR) Must contain the word Lexile for the record to be
found during a Lexile search.
Important: Make sure you set the indicator to 8 . Otherwise, the
Lexile measure does not appear in a Lexile Search results
list. In addition, an Alliance Plus autorecon may update a
521 tag with an indicator of 0 or 2, but skips one with an 8.
* For more information on Lexile Measures, visit http://www.lexile.com .
Examples: Tag Subfield Entry
521 0ø _a 6.2
_b Follett Library Resources
521 2ø _a 3-6
521 8ø _a 850
_b Lexile.com