[DCRM-L] Limitations of MARC 581

[Noble, Richard]

Might there not be system-specific reasons for wanting to use a designated
field for links? They need to be managed in various ways, and there are
free-text fields to describe the link, which could be just as well be
copy-specific as related to the resource generally. The definition of the
field certainly fits the bill:

"Information needed to locate and access an electronic resource.  The field
may be used in a bibliographic record for a resource when that resource or
a subset of it is available electronically.  In addition,* it may be used
to locate and access an electronic version of a non-electronic resource
described in the bibliographic record* [emphasis added] or a related
electronic resource."

If any field that now lacks it really needs |5 that would seem to be the
one. Or is that just one more deck chair on the good ship MARC?

RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY
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On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Deborah J. Leslie <DJLeslie at folger.edu>wrote:

>  I don't know if it would be confusing because I haven't used the 856 for
> that. And don't want to, really; I want to make the 581 carry its weight.
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> *From:* dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] *On
> Behalf Of *Allison Jai O'Dell
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> *To:* DCRM Users' Group
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> *Subject:* Re: [DCRM-L] Limitations of MARC 581
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> I'd say that the 544 similarly suffers, and that the 501 would greatly
> benefit from some linking capability.  (Nevermind that URIs would be
> beneficial in most MARC fields...)
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> In practice, I use the 856 (2nd indicator 2) to address the problem.
> Deborah, do you find that using a separate field makes things confusing for
> your users?
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> Allison Jai O'Dell
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