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Hello all--<br><br>
LC has announced that it will begin using some newer MARC21 characters in
NACO records as of Mon., Oct. 22, 2007. An excerpt of the message with
the list of new characters is below. Please <u>do not</u> use these new
characters in authority records until it has been determined that they
can be supported by Orbis, and that they will not adversely affect
validation and indexing in Orbis, or authority control processing. I'll
let you know when we can start using them. Thank you.<br><br>
--Rick<br><br>
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<font size=3><b>Announcement on Newer MARC 21 Characters in NACO
Records<br>
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Plans
for implementing some of the newer MARC 21 characters have been agreed to
by the NACO nodes (British Library, Library of Congress, National Library
of Medicine, OCLC, Inc.). As of Oct. 22, 2007 the following
characters will be allowed in records contributed to the LC/NACO
Authority File:<br>
<br><br>
Spacing underscore <br>
Spacing grave<br>
Opening curly bracket<br>
Closing curly bracket<br>
Spacing tilde<br>
Degree sign<br>
Lower case script L <br>
Phono copyright mark<br>
Copyright mark<br>
Sharp<br>
Inverted question mark<br>
Inverted exclamation mark <br>
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The Library of Congress will work with OCLC, Inc. with regard to
identifying and converting existing NACO records using the number sign
for the musical sharp, and superscript zero for the degree sign.<br><br>
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<div>Richard P. Sarcia</div>
<div>Catalog Librarian/NACO Coordinator</div>
<div>Catalog & Metadata Services</div>
<div>Sterling Memorial Library</div>
<div>Yale University</div>
<div>tel: 203.432.6406 fax: 203.432.7231</div>
<div>richard.sarcia@yale.edu</div>
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