The Demise of the 440 tag: MARS 2.0 Authority Processing & MARC Proposal No. 2008-07:

June 6^th 2006, MARC Proposal No. 2008-07 presented by MARBI Committee will make field 440 obsolete and will redefine the first indicator value “1” of the 490 field to mean, “Series traced in 8XX field”.

Backstage Library works all along has had parameters in place to accommodate the change.  However, to date, our standard process will collapse the 490/830 to a 440.  In the near future Backstage will change the standard process to not collapse the 490/830 but until the change has been fully accepted by our clients in the library world collapsing of 490/830 to 440 will remain the standard.

We at Backstage understand that many of you may desire to move forward with the change and may no longer want the collapse to 440 to occur.  What we need you to do if you are ready to make that change now is to contact your project manager at Backstage and let them know that you would like to move forward with proposal No. 2008-07 and no longer collapse the 490/830 tag to 440.  There will be no fee incurred for this change.

If you are interested in retrospectively changing your 440 to 490/830 please indicate that to your project manager.  We will need you to send in your bib records with 440 tags.  We will reprocess them at on-going Current Cataloging rates.

John Reese

Product Manager

Backstage Library Works

Voice (800) 391-5210 Ext. 2490

Fax (801) 356-8220

Email jreese@bslw.com

John Reese

Product Manager

Backstage Library Works

Voice (800) 391-5210 Ext. 249

Fax (801) 356-8220

Email jreese@bslw.com