Audience Facets

The following documentation explains how each record populates the Audience facets.

Table of Contents

1 Audience
- 1.1 Target Audience OverDrive Subjects
2 Reading Level
3 Related Documentation

Audience

The translations for Target Audience and Reading Level can be different for some libraries, especially the unknown values. Some sites use unique mapping for audience based on other data points e.g. shelving location.

The mapping described below is the default for Audience and does not detail unique settings for individual sites that don’t follow the default.

Audience Facet Translation Mapping

A = Juvenile
B = Juvenile
C = Juvenile
D = Young Adult
E = Adult

F = Special
G = General
J = Juvenile
Juvenile = Juvenile
Adult = Adult

Easy = Juvenile
YA = Young Adult
Unknown = Unknown
| = Unknown
* = Adult

The translations can be different for some Pika sites, especially the unknown values. Also, some libraries will use children instead of juvenile, and teen instead of young adult. The display values are translated for those libraries.

For the Audience, we first will look for MARC 006 for position 05 (target audience). This will be for books, music, computer files, and visual materials. Second, we will look for the MARC 008 for position 22 (target audience). Here is more about the audience facet. For the Audience we will look at the MARC Leader 006 will first look at the characters 6 (Rec Type) & 7 (Bib Level) for books, music, computer files, and visual materials.