Manon,<br><br>You may want to see how your OPAC displays the 541 field, as the OPAC here automatically displays the fields in alphabetical order rather then the order entered. Not that it stops me from entering it in correctly, as in the examples in emails below.<br><br>I would only add the call number to the $3 if the catalog record covers more than one call number. I usually do not use this field as many times the $3 would be too long. Also if the source of acquisition is usually from the same person(s) or dealer over a period of years I just update the $d indicating the different years.<br><br>Alison Bridger<br>Manuscripts Cataloger<br>The Bancroft Library<br>University of California<br><br><br><br><br><b><i>"Hartman, Laura A. (NIH/NLM) [E]" <laurah@mail.nlm.nih.gov></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=us-ascii"> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3199" name="GENERATOR"> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="195110618-11102007"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Manon,</font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="195110618-11102007"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="195110618-11102007"><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. </font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="195110618-11102007"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="195110618-11102007"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
size="2">Example:</font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="195110618-11102007"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="195110618-11102007"><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> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="195110618-11102007"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="195110618-11102007"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Best regards,</font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="195110618-11102007"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Laura</font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="195110618-11102007"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="195110618-11102007"><font
color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Laura Hartman</font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="195110618-11102007"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Rare Book Cataloguer</font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="195110618-11102007"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">History of Medicine Division</font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="195110618-11102007"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">National Library of Medicine</font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="195110618-11102007"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">(301) 402-6170</font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="195110618-11102007"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div><br> <div class="OutlookMessageHeader" dir="ltr" align="left" lang="en-us"> <hr tabindex="-1"> <font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> Manon Theroux [mailto:manon.theroux@gmail.com]
<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 11, 2007 1:42 PM<br><b>To:</b> dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> [DCRM-L] questions about use of 541 field<br></font><br></div> <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">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></blockquote><br><p> 
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