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Re: museum, library and archives
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Toniann Scime <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 26 May 2006 08:52:41 -0400
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That's true. I just started looking into using MARC for archival material and I saw there were a great many possibilities. Since we also use collection management software, though, and archival materials will definitely still be included in that database, I haven't decided whether to double-catalog them into the OPAC as well, for access, or not.

Toniann Scime
Amherst Museum

---- "David E. Haberstich" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 
>  
> In a message dated 5/25/2006 3:10:05 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> [log in to unmask] writes:
> 
> Library  OPACs
> do not include fields regarding donation or accession, exhibit  use,
> condition, and so forth.
> 
> 
> Actually, MARC format has a field for accession information (541) and  
> another for exhibition citations (585), which we use in archival records.   While 
> there is no designated condition field, we use a local field, 590, which  has 
> been configured to display the label "condition" in the OPAC.  With a  little 
> tweaking, we find MARC adaptable for cataloguing "three-dimensional"  artifacts.
>  
> David Haberstich 
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