<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">The 046 field is there for this purpose (among others).  The correct date goes in the Date1 slot, and the 046 has $a x $c [wrong date].<div><br></div><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">$c - Date 1, C.E. date</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Common Era (C.E.) Date 1 (type of date normally recorded in 008/07-10). In the case of an incorrect date 1, the incorrect date is recorded in field 046 while the corrected date is recorded in 008/07-10.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">046<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span>##$ax$c1703</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">  </span>[Incorrect C.E. Date 1; corrected Date 1 “1730" recorded in 008/07-10]</div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br></div><div>Of course, local usefulness depends on local indexing,</div><div><br></div><div>John Lancaster</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 10, 2015, at 10:13 AM, Nipps, Karen <<a href="mailto:nipps@fas.harvard.edu">nipps@fas.harvard.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">

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<div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Hi, All – I know this subject has come up before, so I apologize for the resurrection should my question be redundant ….
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">It is quite common in almanac printing that the date of printing precedes the year for which a given almanac was issued by one year. So, for instance, if
 the imprint date of an almanac is 1760, this might be expressed in the MARC record’s imprint field as “… 1760 [i.e. 1759?]”. My question is, what do people do about the fixed fields to represent both dates? My cloudy memory recalls that the community was considering
 putting in a request to the powers-that-be for a new publication status (008/06) – did this ever get any traction? Thanks. - Karen    <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#5F497A">Karen Nipps<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#5F497A">Head, Rare Book Team<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#5F497A">Houghton Library<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#5F497A">Harvard University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#5F497A">Cambridge, MA 02138<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#5F497A">Phone: 617-496-9190<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#5F497A">FAX: 617-495-1376<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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