Thanks Joan.
This came up because we are starting to scan barcodes on books in our searches.
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At 07:35 AM 3/29/2007, you wrote:
I've been consulting the MARC21 Bibliographic Format field list online,
looking especially at the 024 field--"Other Standard Identifier" (other
than ISBN or ISSN, I think that name means). Most of the possibilities I
see given for this field are "international" codes of one kind or
another. The dana-kod is a purely Israeli number, given only to books
published in Israel, at least as far as I know. I don't see an
appropriate MARC field for recording such a number, unless you want to
code it as "unspecified" and give a subfield identifying it, which seems
like considerable trouble to go to. There are numbers like this in ISBN
barcodes for U.S. books too, and we just don't record them.
If you really want to record a dana-kod, I guess you could instead put it
in a 500 note for "other numbers borne by the item."
Joan
The url is http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdlist.html
>>> Robert Talbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/28/07 5:01 PM >>>
Dear Heb-NACO Reflector:
I know nothing about this, and have to ask:
Why the heck don't we include dana-kod numbers in our bib records?
Befuddled in Berkeley
