[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] MARC for electronic resources

[Jason Stephenson]

Quoting Mary Llewellyn <mllewell at biblio.org>:

> Jumping in here with a question about adding subfield 9. If we have  
> more than one library subscribed to an e-resource, can we add  
> multiple subfields 9 to a single 856 to display the bib in each of  
> those libraries' public catalogs?

You can add multiple 856 tags. IIRC they are repeatable.

Also, in checking the code, it looks like you're expected to add  
multiple 856s, one for each holding library.

Also, in 2.0 at least, the shortname can go in a subfield 9, w, or n.

HtH,
Jason Stephenson
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium


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> On Sep 28, 2010, at 9:30 PM, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 05:13:03PM -0500, Deanna  Frazee wrote:
>>> Thanks Dan,
>>>
>>> It makes sense.  But my problem is that the MARC record is not
>>> displaying at all in the public catalog.  I'm assuming this is because
>>> there is no holding record, but perhaps I'm wrong?
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>> There are three ways a record can be made visible in the public
>> catalogue:
>>  * Set the record source to a transcendent source
>>  * Add a copy with a visible status in a visible copy location in a
>>    visible library
>>  * (As of 1.6) add an 856, first indicator 4, second indicator 0,
>>    with a $9 subfield with a value matching a shortname in your
>>    search scope
>>
>> If your record isn't displaying in the public catalog, and you have an
>> 856 40 $9 SHORTNAME in the record, then perhaps something else is wrong
>> with the record or your configuration. At this point, without a concrete
>> example, there's not much I can do to help diagnose the problem further.
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