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Just curious: Do you display the 541 field in the OPAC? In some cases in
our library we want to display it (to honor the donor), and in other
cases (such as books for our Human Sexuality Collection) the donor wants
to remain anonymous, yet we still want to have a record of where the
books came from. So we've ended up doing various things in these various
cases. We are trying to be consistent about our inconsistency, though!
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Margaret <br><br>
At 02:27 PM 10/11/2007, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Thanks! <br><br>
I should have included the $5 in my hypothetical example; that was an
oversight in my haste to get the message out.<br><br>
-Manon<br><br>
On 10/11/07, <b>Hartman, Laura A. (NIH/NLM) [E]</b>
<<a href="mailto:laurah@mail.nlm.nih.gov">laurah@mail.nlm.nih.gov</a>
> wrote:<br>
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<dd><font size=2 color="#0000FF">Manon,<br>
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<dd><font size=2 color="#0000FF">NLM constructs its 541 fields using the
$3 and placing the $c before the $a. We also follow the practice
shown in the MARC documentation of separating the subfields with
semi-colons. All of our notes are distributed to OCLC, so we add a
$5 as well. <br>
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<dd> <br>
<dd><font size=2 color="#0000FF">Example:<br>
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<dd><font size=2 color="#0000FF">541 $3 Copy 2; $c Gift; $a National
Center for Homeopathy; $d 2007. $5 DNLM<br>
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<dd> <br>
<dd><font size=2 color="#0000FF">Best regards,<br>
<dd>Laura<br>
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<dd> <br>
<dd><font size=2 color="#0000FF">Laura Hartman<br>
<dd>Rare Book Cataloguer<br>
<dd>History of Medicine Division<br>
<dd>National Library of Medicine<br>
<dd>(301) 402-6170<br>
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<dd><font face="Tahoma" size=2>From:</b> Manon Theroux
[<a href="mailto:manon.theroux@gmail.com" eudora="autourl">
mailto:manon.theroux@gmail.com</a>] <br>
<dd>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 11, 2007 1:42 PM<br>
<dd>To:</b>
<a href="mailto:dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu">dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu</a><br>
<dd>Subject:</b> [DCRM-L] questions about use of 541 field<br>
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<dd>Hi, all--<br><br>
<dd>When using the 541 field in a bib record for a printed book:
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<dd>1) What would be the proper way to designate the specific copy/volume
to which the note applies? Could the $3 be used for this?<br><br>
<dd>2) Can the subfields be given in any order? The MARC documentation
seems to indicate this is acceptable but I thought I'd ask
anyway!<br><br>
<dd><a href="http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdnot2.html#mrcb541">
http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdnot2.html#mrcb541 </a><br><br>
<dd>As a hypothetical example:<br><br>
<dd>541 ## $3 Special Collections [call #]: $c Gift of $a George
Smith-Pelecanos, $d 1972. <br><br>
<dd>Thanks in advance for any advice you can provide!<br><br>
<dd>Manon<br><br>
<dd>--<br>
<dd>Manon Theroux <br>
<dd>Head, Cataloging & Metadata Services<br>
<dd>George Mason University Libraries<br>
<dd>Fairfax, Virginia<br><br>
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________________________________<br><br>
Margaret Nichols<br>
Head, Special Collections Materials Unit<br>
Library Technical Services<br>
110 Olin Library<br>
Cornell University<br>
Ithaca, NY. 14853-5302 <br>
mnr1@cornell.edu * Tel. (607) 255-5752 / 255-3530
* Fax (607) 255-9524 <br><br>
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