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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:
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> In a message dated 5/25/2006 3:10:05 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
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> Library OPACs
> do not include fields regarding donation or accession, exhibit use,
> condition, and so forth.
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> 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.
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> David Haberstich
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