--- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 15:48:01 -0400 From: [log in to unmask] Subject: new MARC fields in online systems Sender: [log in to unmask] Can anyone (especially those from libraries using Innovative Interfaces for their online catalog) tell me how their library has gotten their online system to accomodate these new MARC fields for geospatial data: 342, Geospatial reference data; 343, Planar coordinate data; and 352, Digital graphic representation? With our Innovative system, we have to group fields into a limited number of "group tags" (if I understand correctly). These tags make a difference in how the fields are labelled in the display of records. (They don't really relate to indexing -- again, if I understand correctly -- and we are not going to index these fields.) For our existing fields, we have a group for mathematical data that includes the 255, and we have a group for description which includes the 300 (but not all 3xxs necessarily), and a group for notes which includes the 500. My first inclination was to put the 342 and 343 with the mathematical data group field, and the 352 with either the description or note group. But perhaps they should all go with the description group or the note group. And maybe since MARC groups them all as 3xx, we should follow that lead and group them all as description. I'd be interested to hear how others of you have handled this, or what you think the implications of a particular decision are. We haven't used the fields in our cataloging yet, but we want to prepare our system for them, and want to group them in the way that seems to make the most sense. Your comments will be much appreciated. Nancy Kandoian Map Division New York Public Library [log in to unmask] --- End Forwarded Message ---