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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">In 2007, MARBI approved creation of MARC field 751:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">Added entry in which the entry element is a geographic name that is related to a particular attribute of the described item, e.g., the place of publication for a rare book, place of distribution,
place of a university to which a dissertation is submitted, place of an event such as a conference, etc.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd751.html">http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd751.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">The scope of this field is similar to that of the 752, which substitutes “hierarchical form of place name” for “geographic name.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Compare the results:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">751 __ $a Lyon (France) $e publication place [or $4 pup]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">752 __ $a France $d Lyon.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">While we may debate the merits of recording the entry element in hierarchical form (752) or a form as entered in an authority file (751), the 751 has at least one clear advantage: it allows us to
specify the nature of the relationship between the place and the resource, via subfields $e or $4. These subfields are not available in the 752.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">I fear our 752 tracings are regrettably ambiguous. They fail to indicate whether the data is about a place of production, publication, distribution, or manufacture.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Before long, it is very likely that the option to record relationships to PPDM places will be formalized in RDA. See:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">FRBR Library Reference Model:
<a href="http://library.ifla.org/1084/1/207-riva-en.pdf">http://library.ifla.org/1084/1/207-riva-en.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Proposed revisions to RDA 2.7-2.10:
<a href="http://www.rda-rsc.org/6JSC/BL%20rep/2">http://www.rda-rsc.org/6JSC/BL%20rep/2</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Given that RDA will soon emphasize related places, I think now would be a good time to modify our practice so that we can make explicit the nature of these relationships (of course agencies are
free to do as they please). Might we consider it best practice to use the 751 instead of the 752? Or could we request a modification to the 752 field to add subfields in which to record the relationship designator and/or code? Are any on this list already
using the 751 field?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Francis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Francis Lapka · Catalog Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Yale Center for British Art<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">203.432.9672 ·
</span><a href="mailto:francis.lapka@yale.edu"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:blue">francis.lapka@yale.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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