Hi,
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <rochkind_at_jhu.edu> wrote:
> Frances Dean McNamara wrote:
>>
>> So, why aren't we keeping the Authorities LCCN in name fields? Then we
>> could link to some interesting stuff, like OCLC Identities, or later other
>> registries of authors.
>>
> And it certainly can hypothetically be done in MARC, or in _any_ record
> format that's flexible enough to handle it.
Of course, many systems and cataloging communities *have* consistently
been using a MARC subfield to store the ID of the authority record
corresponding to a heading. It's a pity that it took until 2007 for
such a subfield ($0) to be defined for MARC21.
Regards,
Galen Charlton
LibLime
Received on Thu Apr 23 2009 - 12:18:01 EDT