Library Cataloging
MARC Tag of the Month
At Follett the MARC Tag of the Month for November is MARC Record Sample -- Sound Recording (cassette) -- Non-musical Audiobook. Seems to be missing field 306. Do people use that field? I don't catalog much in the way of audiobooks, so it may be a non-issue.
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Marc Tag Of The Month
This month the Follett MARC Tag of the Month is a MARC Record Sample -- More than 3 authors (Book). Maybe they could have picked a better example. It looks like Enloe, C. Lon should be a main entry. Maybe he was an editor, but that information is missing...
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Marc Tag Of The Month
The MARC Tag of the Month from Follett is a Sample MARC Record with a Corporate Name Main Entry. Field 008 gives only the year, yet there is a 500 showing the month as well. Why not include that info in the 008? The contract number is in field 500, wouldn't...
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Marc Tag Of The Month
This month the MARC Tag of the Month at Follett is a MARC Record Sample for an e-book. It is missing the 006 and 007 fields. They do use the option to give the extent of the remote item. I'd have included an 655.
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Tag Of The Month
The Follett Tag of the Month for July is a MARC Record Sample -- Sound Recording -- CD....
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Marc
The Tag of the Month is a great resource provided by Follett. Each month they provide an explanation of one MARC field with some examples. It can be nice when using a new field to read the LC, OCLC and this to get a better understanding of the field and...
Library Cataloging