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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">As we prepare for life After-MARC, I think it would be handy to have a clear means to associate copy-specific data in a bib record with the copy to which it applies, for example for data in fields
655 and 7xx. I’m concerned that MARC doesn’t currently provide an adequate means.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">MARC gives us subfield $5 to record the institution to which a field applies. But as defined, this field cannot specify a copy. See:
<a href="http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdcntf.html">http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdcntf.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">MARC gives us subfield $3 to record “the part of the described materials to which the field applies.” I have seen subfield $3 used to specify an individual copy – where there is more than one copy
described in a bib record – but this seems an imperfect match to the scope of subfield $3. The flawed suitability of subfield $3 is made most clear in the wording used to define its scope within the 563 field, for bindings: “Portion of the binding that is
described in the field.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">This leaves me with little faith that subfield $3 can serve as a machine actionable means to match copy-specific data in a bib record with its related copy entity – for now, a Holdings record; someday,
an Item entity – when subfield $3 may also be used to denote the portion of a manifestation to which data applies. I have doubts that it can effectively serve both functions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Should we explore a new subfield? Are there any left? Or modify $5 to include institution and copy identifier?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Francis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Reference Library</a> and the <a href="mailto:ycba.studyroom@yale.edu" target="_blank">
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