<div dir="ltr">Francis,<div><br></div><div>For us, the answer to 1 and 2 is yes and to 3 is no.</div><div><br></div><div>Our reasoning is that the benefits of providing openly available electronic access outweigh the fact that the e-version does not represent our copy. But now that you mention it, the language we use doesn't specify that the e-version is not based on our copy. From our procedures:</div><div><br></div><div>856 in OCLC record (HathiTrust used as example):</div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.7px">856 41 $u [URL of online resource] $z Available at the HathiTrust Digital Library</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>856 in local catalog record (in all cases; the text follows the automatically generated caption "Connect to" in the OPAC):</div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.7px">856 41 $u [URL of online resource] $z Freely available online version</span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.7px"><br></span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.7px">I'm interested to hear what you and others do.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.7px">~Kate</span></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 8:51 AM, Lapka, Francis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:francis.lapka@yale.edu" target="_blank">francis.lapka@yale.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">A brief exchange with a colleague about MARC field 856 has me wondering about community practice.
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<p style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><span>1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">If OCLC copy for a resource includes an 856 link to an openly available electronic reproduction of the same manifestation (but an electronic version
<i>not</i> generated from the copy at your library), do you keep the link?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><span>2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">For original cataloging, or when editing an OCLC master record, do you add an 856 field to link to an electronic reproduction, if you know of one?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><span>3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Should links to openly available electronic reproductions (in an 856 field) be avoided altogether, if the link is to a reproduction other than your own? If
so, why?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> Francis</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Semilight",sans-serif;color:black">Francis Lapka · Catalog Librarian</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:francis.lapka@yale.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Semilight",sans-serif">francis.lapka@yale.edu</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Kate S. Moriarty, MLS, MSW | Rare Book Catalog Librarian | Associate Professor | Pius XII Memorial Library | Room 320-2<br>Saint Louis University | 3650 Lindell Blvd. | St. Louis, MO 63108 | (314) 977-3024 (tel) | (314) 977-3108 (fax) | <a href="mailto:moriarks@slu.edu" target="_blank">moriarks@slu.edu</a> | <a href="http://libraries.slu.edu/" target="_blank">http://libraries.slu.edu/</a></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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