[DCRM-L] Library ID codes

[Deborah J. Leslie]

Hi Ken,

 

I thought of letting other people respond so you can see how the list usually works, but I'm chained to my desk in the Folger reading room today (which sort of means I have nothing better to do), so thought I'd give it a go. 

 

The ‡2 code is not an institutional code, it's a code for the source of the term, i.e., the controlled vocabulary that supplies the term you're using. This is from the MARC 21 manual:

 

$2 - Source of term

 

MARC code that identifies the source list from which the index term was assigned.  It is used only when the second indicator position contains value 7 (Source specified in subfield $2).  Code from: MARC Code List for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions.

 

655 #7 $aEmblem books$zGermany$y17th century.$2rbgenr

655 #7 $aLithographs$zGermany$y1902.$2gmgpc 

 

For the 655, you can find what codes to mean, or conversely, what codes to use, at http://www.loc.gov/marc/relators/relasour.html#rela655

 

The first term is from the RBMS controlled vocabulary Genre Terms, while the second is from LC's TGM II.

 

______________________________________________

Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S.

Head of Cataloging, Folger Shakespeare Library

201 East Capitol St., S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003

202.675-0369 (t)  202.675-0328 (f) djleslie at folger.edu

www.folger.edu  

 

 

 

 

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From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Ken Rockwell
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 6:58 PM
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Subject: [DCRM-L] Library ID codes

 

Hello, all:

 

Just subscribed after attending the Rare Book Cataloging class with

Deborah Leslie.  I thought I'd 'test drive' this list with a simple

question I've had:

 

Re the 655 subfield 2: Is the code for my library the same as we use in

an 040 or something else?  If the latter, how do we get it?

 

--Ken Rockwell

  University of Utah

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