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><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Hartman, Laura A. (NIH/NLM) [E]</b> <<a href="mailto:laurah@mail.nlm.nih.gov">laurah@mail.nlm.nih.gov</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Manon,</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">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.
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Example:</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">541 $3 Copy 2; $c Gift; $a National Center for Homeopathy;
$d 2007. $5 DNLM</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Best regards,</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Laura</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Laura Hartman</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Rare Book Cataloguer</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">History of Medicine Division</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">National Library of Medicine</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">(301) 402-6170</font></span></div>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> Manon Theroux
[mailto:<a href="mailto:manon.theroux@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">manon.theroux@gmail.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 11, 2007
1:42 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [DCRM-L] questions
about use of 541 field<br></font><br></div><div><span class="e" id="q_1159048e51acc0ba_1">
<div></div><span>Hi, all--<br><br>When using the 541 field in a bib record for a
printed book: <br><br>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>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><a href="http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdnot2.html#mrcb541" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdnot2.html#mrcb541
</a><br><br>As a hypothetical example:<br><br>541 ## $3 Special Collections
[call #]: $c Gift of $a George Smith-Pelecanos, $d 1972. <br><br>Thanks in
advance for any advice you can provide!<br><br>Manon<br><br>--<br>Manon Theroux
<br>Head, Cataloging & Metadata Services<br>George Mason University
Libraries<br>Fairfax, Virginia<br></span></span></div></div>
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