[DCRM-L] Need examples of MARC 255 and 340 OPAC display for a Monday meeting

[Moody, Honor M.]

In our public catalog, HOLLIS, the 255 and 340 display on their own lines under description; these are displayed in MARC field order.

Probably more useful to patrons is the use of 034 data to generate a map in the display. Both 255 and 034 data are displayed on this record, Plan of Boston comprising a part of Charlestown and Cambridge<http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990093702390203941/catalog>. I believe that this explanation of geospatial data in our public catalog<https://wiki.harvard.edu/confluence/x/gYTyCg> is visible to external users.

Example of a record with a 340: Death mask of Blaise Pascal<http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990153215730203941/catalog>.

Thanks for fighting for better UX for all, Erin!

Honor

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From: DCRM-L <dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu> On Behalf Of William Owens
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2022 2:29 PM
To: eblake at folger.edu; DCRM Users' Group <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>
Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Need examples of MARC 255 and 340 OPAC display for a Monday meeting

Hi Erin,

I have some experience with the 340 field, although it is not a field I would manually code for an original record. I have seen the 340 on a handful of records from OCLC for the rare materials that I catalog at NYU. It is typically coded as follows:

340
##$m4to$2rdabf

The 340 field would duplicate the information contained in 300 $c if you have indicated both format and shelf-dimensions in that subfield.

It is not indexed in our OPAC (Aleph) at all.

Hope this helps!

William



On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 1:14 PM Erin Blake <erin.blake.folger at gmail.com<mailto:erin.blake.folger at gmail.com>> wrote:
Help! I've got a golden opportunity to influence OPAC design for all clients in a vendor meeting on Monday, but our current records make so little use of MARC 255 - Cartographic Mathematical Data<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.loc.gov_marc_bibliographic_bd255.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=Cg8xhCakqlNutsJbp0UK5Bv9B6XdDXRHmRQLr1TCAkY&m=H5tjFLa5EHEY1KGj4Knln94hLAALJGNbKTwDsUxZ6ExzsYLaAZ1Raeu5e3rkPhcm&s=WbDwWVol-UsRLoRHcdwXdv4LdLdKUg3N8uuS22gXCbo&e=> and MARC 340 - Physical Medium<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.loc.gov_marc_bibliographic_bd340.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=Cg8xhCakqlNutsJbp0UK5Bv9B6XdDXRHmRQLr1TCAkY&m=H5tjFLa5EHEY1KGj4Knln94hLAALJGNbKTwDsUxZ6ExzsYLaAZ1Raeu5e3rkPhcm&s=BY4DT0AcNdmfCE67QjkGNQ0mqAkdfLiWzW8JkwJMJj4&e=> that I don't have any good examples.

If your OPAC displays them well (or at all!) I'd love to hear from you sooner rather than later.

Thanks,

Erin.

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