172 CODED DATA FIELD: INFORMATION SERVICE POLICY

This field contains coded data applicable to all types of holdings records, that indicates the general

policy of consultation, external lending or reproduction for a bibliographic unit in general or for one

of its physical units specified in the holdings record.

Occurrence

Mandatory. Not repeatable.

Indicators

Indicator 1: blank (not defined)

Indicator 2: blank (not defined)

Subfields

Notes on Field Contents

$a/0

#

a

= Not available

= Unknown

$a/1 Lending policy

# = Information not available

a = Will lend

d = Restricted lending policy (details in field 371)

u = Unknown

$a/2 Reproduction policy

# = Information not available

a = Will reproduce

c = Will reproduce under special conditions (details in field 371)

u = Unknown

Related Field

371

NOTES ON INFORMATION SERVICES POLICY

Examples

EX 1

172 ##$aaaa

Item available for consultation ($a/0 = a), lending ($a/1 = a) and reproduction ($a/2 = a)

EX 2

172

##$aabb

Item available only for consultation ($a/0 = a), neither lending ($a/1 = b) nor reproduction

($a/2 = b) allowed.