[DCRM-L] Fund information, for the online catalog

[Rich, Allison]

Hi Francis:

We have always put in a 590 note reading:

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the [Name]
Fund.

Allison

On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 14:55 Lapka, Francis <francis.lapka at yale.edu> wrote:

> Colleagues,
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> When you want fund information to display in the online catalog, what
> field do you use? My instinct is to find a home for it in field 541 of
> the Holdings record <https://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/hd541.html>, but
> the semantics of 541 subfields are all imperfect matches. In my ideal
> world, the fund data would display in alignment with the pertinent holding *and
> *it would be indexed as a search facet.
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> What do others do?
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> Thanks,
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> Francis
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> Francis Lapka
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> *Senior Catalog Librarian*
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> Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts
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> Yale Center for British Art
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> 203-432-9672  ·  francis.lapka at yale.edu
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Allison Rich
Rare Materials Cataloguer

ESTC and NACO Coordinator

John Carter Brown Library
Providence, Rhode Island
Allison_Rich at brown.edu
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