[DCRM-L] Recording previous library location?

[Wickenden Jane]

Katy
 
I am in a similar situation as the books I catalogue are a) on different
shelves from their previous homes b) from several different collections
anyway.
 
I use
1) the 037 'collection' field
2) a three-letter location code prefix (e.g. HAS for Haslar) in the 091
'previous classmark' field. 
 
The prefix is not strictly called for, but where I have duplicates it
helps with deciphering previous shelf order.
 
These are not hidden fields, but I find that reducing the locations to a
code means that readers don't register them.  Ann's option is probably
cleaner, but I am working with a system that won't stretch to proper 852
<grrrr>
 
Hope that helps.
 
Jane
 
 

Mrs J.V.S. Wickenden, MA (Oxon) Dip.Lib.

Historic Collections Library

Institute of Naval Medicine

Alverstoke

Gosport

Hants.  PO12 2DL

 

tel: 023 9276 8238

e-m: cat1 at inm.mod.uk

 

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From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On
Behalf Of Katy Rawdon-Faucett
Sent: 01 August 2007 16:40
To: DCRM Revision Group List
Subject: [DCRM-L] Recording previous library location?



Dear DCRM-Lers,

 

On the not-so-hot heels of my last cataloguing question (the whole 590
thing, remember that one?) I have another request for input about how
other libraries are recording certain information. Hey, we need another
rip-roaring discussion, right?

 

We have a number of books that were previously part of a reference
library in an old administration building for our institution. That
building was sold a years ago, and the books are now part of our rare
book collection. Many of them belonged to our founder, before our
institution existed. We want to record somewhere in the MARC record the
fact that these books were once housed in this old administration
building, but it is not information that we ever want or need to have
display to our patrons, and certainly not to the world at large if at
some point we start submitting records to OCLC. But we do want the
information somewhere. 

 

A colleague suggested the 561 field, but I somehow don't feel that that
field is back-end or "private" enough for this kind of information. Does
anyone else record previous locations (not so much previous owners or
collections as simply previous library location), and if so, where do
you put it?

 

Thanks,

Katy

 

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Katy Rawdon-Faucett
Archivist and Librarian
The Barnes Foundation
300 North Latch's Lane
Merion, PA  19066-1759
Ph:  (610) 667-0290 ext. 1048
Fax: (610) 664-4026
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