18 Feb
The 245 field must end with a punctuation, the closed bracket ] will not do it. Ex.: [et al.].
As opposed to the 260 field where the date can end in the closed bracket ] Ex.: [1987]
There is a cheat sheet for almost all [...]
Posted in MARC tags by: Jorge Gonzalez
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06 Feb
I’m sure we have all heard by now that the Series Statement/Added entry-title field, known to most of us as 440, has died. It is survived by it’s child, the 830, and a sibbling, 490.
All joking aside, the rules seem almost too easy. Basically, use 490, first indicator 1 or 0 just as [...]
Posted in MARC tags by: Hank Young
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06 Feb
I would like to thank everyone who came to the Holdings refresher class/workshop/seminar … whatever! I enjoyed meeting several folks who I did not know as well as seeing familiar faces.
Now, I need to retract one thing I said in the first class, and add some information I learned after the second one.
First of [...]
Posted in Procedures, Training by: Hank Young
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