[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Where should the barcode be?

[Vicki Reeves]

We purchase MARC records along with the items we add to our collection.
Our vendors are currently putting the bar code number in 852 subfield p.
Our tech services dept. reports that when they import new records via
MARC Batch Import we sometimes get holdings and sometimes we don't.
They assure me that they always check Import Attached Holdings.  This is
not vendor specific and I can't see any difference between the MARC
records which did attach a holding and the ones which did not. On the
records I checked, it was very rare for a holding to attach. We can
easily have our vendors change the field they send the barcode in.  Is
there a field which would work better than 852 $p?  We are on Evergreen
1.6.0.8

Thank you.