I see little reason to add my comments to Hal's response to Diane's latest
post. I could try to argue that the values for Leader/18 are indeed of use, in
this or that context, to someone inside or outside the library, but I won't.
Whether this or that coded bit of information is useful; indeed, whether the
MARC structure itself could use a trim--these are both interesting questions,
but ultimately not to the point.
--Elisabeth
"Diane I. Hillmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would suggest also that it would be a dogged person indeed who would
pursue that little nugget of information unless there was demonstrable
usefulness in their context. Within libraries there may be, but even so, I
flogged MARC data for years without much use for this byte, though I certainly
knew it was there--management of headings being the sort of thing we did in
batch mode insofar as possible. For anyone outside libraryland using MARC
data, I'm guessing that the distinctions noted here are a bit arcane, and
ultimately, useless.
Yes, I know I'm cranky about this stuff, but there it is.
Diane
Elisabeth Spanhoff
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