[DCRM-L] Limitations of MARC 581

[Elizabeth O'Keefe]

Good catch, Deborah! This change seems straightforward enough that it might
not even require a formal proposal, just an email to the Network
Development and MARC Standards Office asking them to add the subfields to
the 581. If they find this at all problematic, they would ask for a more
formal proposal or discussion paper.

Liz O'Keefe


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Margaret F. Nichols <mnr1 at cornell.edu>wrote:

>  Yes, I see what you mean. Sounds like a proposal to add these subfields
> to the 581 would be a good thing. Here's some info I found on where and how
> to make such a proposal: http://www.loc.gov/marc/mac/advisory.html
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> Looking through the 5xx fields, the 588 has a subfield 5 and the 510 has a
> subfield u, but no field that approaches the function of the  581 seems to
> have both.
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> Best,
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> Margaret
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> *From:* dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] *On
> Behalf Of *Deborah J. Leslie
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 10, 2014 11:42 AM
> *To:* DCRM Users' Group
> *Subject:* [DCRM-L] Limitations of MARC 581
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> Does anyone else find MARC 581 too limiting for the purposes of rare
> materials cataloging? http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd581.html
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> Is there any reason that |u for online publications and |5 when the
> publication is about individual copies could not be added? Or is there
> another tag for this information that I'm missing?
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> Thanks,
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> Deborah
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