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

[Will Evans]

About a decade ago we started adding the fund and donor names in a 541.
When we have multiple copies we enter a 541 for each copy prefaced by $3
indicating the location of that copy. We trace for donors in 653’s, but not
for fund names.



Best,

Will



Will Evans, MLIS

[he/him/his]

N.E.H. Chief Technical Services Librarian

Library of the Boston Athenaeum

10 1/2 Beacon Street

Boston, MA   02108

Tel:  617-227-0270 ext. 243

Fax: 617-227-5266

www.bostonathenaeum.org



*From:* DCRM-L <dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu> *On Behalf Of *Lapka, Francis
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Colleagues,



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.



What do others do?



Thanks,

Francis







Francis Lapka

*Senior Catalog Librarian*

Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts

Yale Center for British Art

203-432-9672  ·  francis.lapka at yale.edu
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