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To enable staff and patrons to limit their searches in the PAC/Staff client for“only children’s” materials or “only adult” materials it has been suggested that target audience in the bibliographic record be re-examined.  Currently Technical Services staffs use the following target audiences: preschool, primary school, pre-teen, juvenile, young adult and general.  It was decided at the Operations Committee meeting on June 6 ,2007 that general should not be used, but adult should be used.  The staffs at MVLS, SALS & SCPL will not add preschool, primary school or pre-teen to records, but they will not remove this designation from valid cataloging sources.  The staffs will add, juvenile for all materials created for children, including G and PG movies; young adult for all print and audiobooks that deal with teenagers and adult for everything else, including PG-13, R and NR movies.

Filed under: MVLS, SALS, Standards