Re: 850 holdings

["Zahavi, Naomi" <nzahavi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The 850 is Innovative's standard "LIB HAS" holdings field in the 
bibliographic record.  You can ask the Help Desk to adjust your OCLC load 
table so that the 850 fields in OCLC records are stripped from the records 
upon export.  That's what we do.

Naomi

At 04:58 PM 5/20/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>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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>Youngstown State University
>Youngstown, OH
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Naomi Zahavi
Head Cataloging Librarian
Loyola Marymount University Library     phone: (310)338-7685
One LMU Drive, MS 8200                     fax: (310)338-4366
Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659               email: nzahavi@xxxxxxxxxx