This is what happens when we continue to coopt a communication standard developed to print cards for use as a vehicle to convey data in electronic interfaces. Nearly every quirk in MARC can be traced back to its foundation as a card printing mechanism (and the lack of programming sophistication when it was originally developed). John Myers, Catalog Librarian Schaffer Library, Union College Schenectady NY 12308 mye...@union.edu 518-388-6623
________________________________ J. McRee Elrod wrote: According the samples, and the explanations given by others, you now know that there is a final period only if a 490 follows 300, despite the fact that there are now three new 3XX fields between. This seems ridiculous to me. In any given OPAC display, the 490 may or may not be displayed following the 300, and may or may not be in the same paragraph.
