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Reviewing the subtle differences between the 650 and 653 fields
Every library and her cataloguers need to decide what’s more important: The purity of the cataloguing or the compability of the controlled vocabulary to meet the needs of the library user.
It’s a tough one and I don’t feel that I can tell anyone what’s the best choice for their library. I don’t think [...]
In the 260 field, subfield b, please put in the full name of the publisher
A personal pet peeve of mine are those cataloguers who are still thinking like we’re using the Card Catalogue system. It’s all online people, you don’t have to worry about saving space! Put as much information in as you can!
There’s nowhere that I can see this evidenced more than in the 260 field, [...]
Quick poll here — who loves the 5XX fields in MARC records?
Really? So few? Why not more?
With going back to cataloguing, I’m remembering again just how much I love the 5XX fields. In the age of google and yahoo, everyone is used to keyword searching. Why wouldn’t you want to do everything you could to make sure the keyword searching capability of [...]
Please put in the 020 field, dear cataloguers, and make the interlibrary loan staff happy
Since I’m working now part-time as a cataloguer, I’m refreshing my knowledge of cataloguing and by doing so, becoming familiar again with copy cataloguing.
What I’d like to know is, why do so many cataloguers leave out the 020 field?
In case you don’t know, the 020 field is for the ISBN. [...]
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