Quoting Janet Hill <Janet.Hill_at_COLORADO.EDU>:
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> And Karen, does my memory fail me, or haven't there already been
> (relatively) recent studies about the utility of MARC fields?
> Admittedly it's a moving target, as systems and expectations evolve.
>
The only one that I'm aware of is the Moen/Miksa study of how
frequently fields and subfields appear in OCLC records. I don't know
that anyone has been able to define "utility" in this context, but
would love to see if it they did (or even attempted to)
kc
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