Kevin said:
>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?
Redundancy is one of the major problems of MARC, dating from when it
was more difficult to access variable field data. The presence of
this data in fixed fields does *not* replace the need for the data in
a form patrons can read and use. Having the running time of a DVD in
008/18-20 does not preclude having it in 300 where patrons can see it.
We hope Bibframe will have less redundancy, but not at the expense of
having useful human understandable descriptions.
In the mean time, 250 is an acceptable work around to get "large
print" where patrons can see it. Large print is the only text some
patrons can use. We should have "text (large print)" as an RDA
content term, and a way of displaying media terms (or their meanings)
needs to be developed, but unless and until ...
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