Hello Chris,

I noticed the same thing not too long ago and found this announcement on
the LC Web site stating that the 072 would be no longer supplied in LC
records :
http://www.loc.gov/cds/notices/notfield072.html

Marc





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>Subject: 072 field
>Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 14:52:10 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Christopher Winters
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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.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Chris Winters
>University of Chicago Library




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