521 - Target Audience Note (R)

Indicators 1st -  Display constant controller
# - Audience
0 - Reading grade level
1 - Interest age level
2 - Interest grade level
3 - Special audience characteristics
4 - Motivation interest level
8 - No display constant generated
2nd -  Undefined
Subfields _a  Target audience note (R)
  _b Source (NR)
  _3 Materials specified (NR)
  _6 Linkage (NR)
  _8 Field link and sequence number (R)
Guidelines

In Destiny, patrons can limit their searches by Reading Grade Level, Interest Grade Level, or both. For the title to appear in search results, the MARC record must contain the following information:

Target Audience type

First ind.

Subfield information

Reading grade level

0

_a Any value or range of values between 0.1 and 20.0.

Interest grade level

2

_a Must contain one of the following:

  • Preschool
  • K-3
  • 3-6
  • 5-8
  • All Juvenile
  • 7-10
  • All Secondary
  • All Grades
  • Young Adult
  • Adult
  • Professional
Patrons can also limit their searches to books with Lexile measures, codes, or both, and to books with Fountas and Pinnell levels.
Examples
521 0# _a3.4
_bFollett Library Resources. (Note: The reading level is that for the fourth month of the third grade.)
521 1# _a007-010. (Note: The interest level is that for ages 7-10.)
521 ## _aJunior high school through college students and adults.
521 8# _aFor remedial reading programs.
521 2# _aK-3. (Note: The item is of interest to those in kindergarten to third grades.)
521 8# _aMPAA rating: PG.
521 8# _a700
_bLexile.
521 8# _aAD 120
_bLexile.
521 8# _aK
_bFountas and Pinnell.
521 8# _aFountas and Pinnell Guided reading level: D.