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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><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><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?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><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?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><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?<o:p></o:p></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"><o:p></o:p></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"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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