Having checked with our Periodicals and Cataloguing staff
UEA agrees with
other institutions that this would be of no benefit to us
and would result in a
deterioration of our bibligraphic
records
Meryl Turner
Senior Library Assistant,
Systems
Library
University of East Anglia
Norwich
NR4 7TJ
Tel: 01603-593472
m.p.turner@uea.ac.uk
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This email never seemed to get properly posted to the listserv, so
I'm resending Judy's original email, please read it and help if you can.
-Chad
Hello Everyone, we are looking for feedback from our
community:
MARC Proposal No. 2008-06 requested that $x ISSN's be
allowed in 8XX fields (http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2008/2008-06.html)
and the proposal was approved by Library of Congress on October 2, 2008.
Just recently OCLC has decided to begin allowing $x too (see their July 2009
Technical Bulletin 257 found at: http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/worldcat/tb/257/default.htm.
With
LC's switch from 440 to 490 and our programming changes to accommodate this,
many of you are now getting $x ISSN subfields in your Bibliographic
8XXs. This has been causing some concern and at least in one
scenario, it creates a problem situation as follows:
original bib
headings:
490_1 $aSTI/PUB ;$v1343
490_1 $aSafety reports
series,$x1020-6450 ;$vno. 58
830_0 $aSafety reports series ;$vno.
58.
after processing:
490_1 $aSTI/PUB ;$v1343
490_1 $aSafety
reports series,$x1020-6450 ;$vno. 58
830_0 $aSafety reports series ;$vno.
58.
830_0 $aSafety reports series,$x1020-6450 ;$vno. 58.
The resulting
830s happened this way because the 8XXs must link up with 490-1's. The
system assumes the first 8XX belongs to the first 490-1 so it retained
"Safety report series ;$vno. 58." Since it "thought" there was no
8XX for the second 490-1 an 8XX was created for it. Unfortunately it was
the first 490-1 that was missing a linking 8XX.
What is your practice
regarding 8XX $x? Since this is now an allowable subfield and we follow LC
procedures, what will this do to your system?
Your feedback would be
very welcome and much appreciated. Feel free to respond to this e-mail or
talk about it on our Forum at: http://ac.bslw.com/community/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=34
Thanks,
Judy