I'm going to guess that it's because 59x fields are defined for local use:
http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd59x.html ...but someone from LC should be able to confirm. -Jon -- Jon Stroop Metadata Analyst Firestone Library Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 Email: jstr...@princeton.edu Phone: (609)258-0059 Fax: (609)258-0441 http://pudl.princeton.edu http://diglib.princeton.edu http://diglib.princeton.edu/ead http://www.cpanda.org/cpanda On 05/19/2011 11:45 AM, Richard, Joel M wrote:
Dear hive-mind, Does anyone know why the Library of Congress-supplied MARCXML to MODS XSLT [1] does not handle the MARC 590 Local Notes field? It seems to handle everything else, not that I've done an exhaustive search... :) Granted, I could copy/create my own XSLT and add this functionality in myself, but I'm curious as to whether or not there's some logic behind this decision to not include it. Logic that I would not naturally understand since I'm not formally trained as a librarian. Thanks! --Joel [1] http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/MARC21slim2MODS3-4.xsl Joel Richard IT Specialist, Web Services Department Smithsonian Institution Libraries | http://www.sil.si.edu/ (202) 633-1706 | richar...@si.edu
