[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How do your catalogers handle the 008 bib create date?

[Melissa Belvadi]

Hi, all,  

The new bib record template system hardcodes a particular date in an
xml file for the 008 positions 00-05 (yymmdd of the date you created the
record, per http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd008a.html ). 
You can leave it blank in the template, or put in a particular yymmdd,
but apparently can't do anything to make it automatically stick in
today's date without some local custom coding. 
So I'm wondering what all the Evergreen catalogers are doing out there
with this. 
Do you: 
1. leave it blank? 
2. leave an old date in the template xml and hand-change it with every
new record you create? 
3. did you do some custom coding locallly (eg maybe involving a cron
job) to modify the xml every day? 
4. other???? 


Thanks for sharing your practice on this! 
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