I will be attending the MARBI sessions at the annual meeting of ALA in Orlando on June 26 and 27. Of the six papers on the agenda, only one seems of interest to catalogers and/or special collections. This is Proposal 2004-07, “Applying Field 752 (Added Entry - Hierarchical Place Name) for Different Purposes in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format.” The 752 field is widely used by rare book catalogers to bring out the place of publication or printing; other applications, such as online catalogs of graphic images, have used the hierarchical geographic name structure of field 752 for a subject approach. Map catalogers use it to bring out the countries depicted in maps; and it can also be used to record the place of production and the place of use of 3-D artifacts. The proposal discusses ways to distinguish between use for subject access and use for access to publication, printing, and production information.

Full texts of all the papers are available at http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/an2004_age.html

Your thoughts on this versatile field, or any other topic on the agenda, are most welcome.

Liz O'Keefe

Elizabeth O'Keefe
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