[DCRM-L] A Holdings 655

[Erin Blake]

I'm late to the game on this.... A system upgrade bumped DCRM-L off my 'favorites' list and I hadn't realized I was missing the conversation!

I think 655 in the Holdings format makes excellent logical sense, assuming it can be indexed properly.

Our TIND ILS provides the equivalent already, thanks to having holdings data "embedded" in the bib record. We can use $8 to link particular headings to a particular copy (not just 655s but also copy-specific 5XX and 7XX fields).

Scroll down to the bottom of https://catalog.folger.edu/record/162814 for an example: copy 1 has copy-specific 655s, copy 2 has a 700 for former owner.

Erin

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Erin Blake, PhD | Senior Cataloger | she/her | Folger Shakespeare Library | eblake at folger.edu

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Bob, you rightly highlight questions related to how systems would handle a Holdings 655. I wonder if the problem is chicken-and-eggy: perhaps our systems are weak in this domain because our expectations have always been too low.

The Yale context includes a migration to Alma in 2025 and a concurrent review of practices for copy-specific data. For indexing and display, we plan on maintaining a Blacklight-based catalog, which gives us more control for customized outcomes. For cataloging, you'd want a Holdings-based genre/form field to be controllable, like access points in a Bib record. A little bit of tinkering in our Alma sandbox suggests we could do this by making use of Alma's Controlled Vocabulary Registry<https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/Metadata_Management/210Metadata_Management_Configuration/Configuring_Cataloging#Configuring_Controlled_Vocabulary_Registry>. So the elements seem there to make a Holdings 655 feasible and useful, here at least. But I'd hesitate to propose a new MARC field in the absence of wider interest.

I share your interest in former owner access points in Holdings. Here I think the recently introduced 361 field<https://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/hd361.html> could suffice, even if the structures don't exactly parallel the 7xx fields.

Francis


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I think that sounds like a good idea but I don't think our system (or any other?) would index it, which is important. But maybe that could be overcome. Actually it would also be nice if holdings records could contain "local" added access points, e.g. for former owners. With the same caveat, needs to index.

Bob

Robert L. Maxwell
Ancient Languages and Special Collections Cataloger
6728 Harold B. Lee Library
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
(801)422-5568

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Subject: [DCRM-L] A Holdings 655

Two questions:


  1.  If the MARC Holdings format included a field 655 for copy-specific genre/form terms, such as those in the Provenance facet of the RBMS CV<https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/rbmscv/cv00017.html>, would your library think about using it?



  1.  Would the MARC community scoff at a proposal for such a field?


Francis


Francis Lapka
Senior Catalog Librarian
Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts
Yale Center for British Art
203-432-9672  *  britishart.yale.edu<http://britishart.yale.edu/>


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