Less-than-full level, material not examined:

Code 2 (Leader/17) indicates a less-than-full level record (i.e., a record that falls between minimal level and full) created from an extant description of the material (e.g., a printed catalog card) without reinspection of the physical item.  All the descriptive access points as found on the extant description have been transcribed; the authoritative headings, however, may not necessarily be current.

Code 2 would be used, for example, when only a subset of data elements is transcribed from a catalog card during retrospective conversion to the MARC format.