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Applying field 752 (Added Entry – Hierarchical Place Name) for different purposes in the MARC 21 Bibliographic ... (1663 words) |
 | According to MARC 21 documentation, the field 752 added entry "is assigned … to give access to a bibliographic record through a hierarchical form of a place name related to a particular attribute (e.g. |
| For those institutions that use 752 fields for any of the above reasons, the field may or may not be indexed by the local system. |
| To create an index now for the 752 field, with the intent of providing access to place of printing, publication, or production, would mean the possibility of retrieving some records having 752 fields related to geographical subject content of the item described, as opposed to the imprint location. |
| Applying field 752 (Added Entry - Hierarchical Place Name) for different purposes in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format (2367 words) |
| This paper proposes a way to facilitate different indexing by either adding indicators to the 752 field to show whether the place name designates place of publication or subject, or by defining a new field (field 652) for subject use. |
| The 752 field in GandM records has become a key indexing point; its content is directly tied to the geographic hierarchy in field 052 (Geographic Classification). |
| If field 752 was more narrowly defined and its uses related exclusively to place of production or publication, this would require institutions that have used the field as an access point related to geographic content or coverage to change records containing this field and move data in the 752 field to the new field. |
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