Mac Elrod wrote: > Kevin said: > > >But field 340 would be where you would record the font size itself as a > >descriptive aspect. > > What does this accomplish for patrons, if 340 is not in brief display?
What good does the language code in 008/35-37 do? Or the place of publication in 008/15-17? Or the biography code in 008/34 for books? Or the relief codes in 008/18-21 for maps? These are all things that are recorded in standardized ways so that systems can make use of them. They might be used to drive some kind of display message if someone were to design their OPAC that way. But more likely, they'd be used in facets for filtering search results. If we were to limit our MARC records only to those things that show up in brief OPAC displays, we'd be even worse off than we already are in terms of the richness of metadata. Kevin M. Randall Principal Serials Cataloger Northwestern University Library k...@northwestern.edu (847) 491-2939 Proudly wearing the sensible shoes since 1978!
