My library does not use the 072 field to indicate subject information.  In
fact, when I have exported from OCLC a record with the 072 field, it is by
default deleted by the system.  I have seen this field less often for new
items than for items several years old or earlier.

Ken
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Ken Grabach                           <[log in to unmask]>
Maps Librarian                         Phone: 513-529-1726
Miami University Libraries
Oxford, Ohio  45056  USA

On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Angie Cope, AGSL wrote:

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> Subject: 072 field
> Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 14:52:10 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Christopher Winters <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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>  I'd be very grateful for information on the current status of the 072
> field (which of course is used in map records to show the LC subject
> code, e.g.,
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> 072  7 $a C5 $2lcg
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> for geology). It seems most major libraries were putting it in a few years
> ago but now are not.
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> Thanks.
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> Chris Winters
> University of Chicago Library
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