Re: 850 holdings

[Jeffrey Trimble <jtrimble@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The 850 tag in OCLC is an LC and CONSER use only field.  It contains the
NUC symbol of the institution holding that serial.    To quote the OCLC
page on this:

"The MARC doe or the name of the institution holding an item."

Hence, it is being mis-used if you are using it as your item holdings
statement.  You should be using the 86X-88X fields.



At 03:32 PM 5/20/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>We have recently seen 850 fields pop up in all kinds of records, from OCLC 
>and Infotrac, for example, with holding libraries codes. Since we are 
>using the 850 for displaying our journal holdings ("lib has"), we are not 
>happy with this development, especially not when all these codes show up 
>on the browse screen and in the lib has field in the records. I assume 
>that this is a III problem because 850 = lib has in this system.
>Can somebody please enlighten us why all of a sudden these holding fields 
>show up? I cannot see them make any sense for our staff or users. How do 
>you deal with them?
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
>
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Jeffrey A. Trimble
Systems/Catalog Librarian
Youngstown State University
Youngstown, OH
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