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| | USM Cataloging Glossary |
 | | Description of the number and the specific material designation of the units of the item being described and, in some cases, other indications of the extent (e.g., duration). |
 | | A field in a machine-readable record in which each element, or unit of data, is limited to a prescribed size, content, and position in the record. |
 | | One of the units into which the original sheet or half sheet of paper, parchment, etc. is folded to form part of a book, pamphlet, journal, etc.; each leaf consists of two pages, one on each side, either or both may be blank. |
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