[yul-naco] FW: [OLAC-L] FW: order of subfields in 041

[Arakawa, Steven]

Since 041 is mandatory in the RDA BSR record; I thought you might find this helpful in coping with the new 041 subfields.

Steven Arakawa
Catalog Librarian for Training & Documentation
Catalog & Metadata Services, SML, Yale University
P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240
(203)432-8286 steven.arakawa at yale.edu

From: OnLine Audiovisual Catalogers electronic discussion list. [mailto:OLAC-L at OCLC.ORG] On Behalf Of Weitz,Jay
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 11:31 AM
To: OLAC-L at OCLC.ORG
Subject: Re: [OLAC-L] FW: order of subfields in 041

There are a few explicit and a few other implicit guidelines about the order of subfields in field 041 that can be gleaned from MARC 21, the "OLAC CAPC Video Language Coding Best Practices" draft, LC's "Music and Sound Recordings Online Manual," and a few other sources.  The following list is hardly exhaustive.


*       For Sound Recordings, subfield $d should be first when present; in all other cases, subfield $a should be first when present.

*       That first subfield $a or $d should have the same Language Code as the 008/35-37 (Language fixed field) unless "Lang" contains code "zxx" (No Linguistic Content) or in some systems, three blanks or three fill characters.

*       When appropriate, subfields $h would follow subfields $a, $d, $e, $j, $k.

*       When appropriate, subfields $m would follow subfields $b and $g.

*       When appropriate, subfields $n would follow subfields $e.

*       If subfield $k is present, it would precede a subfield $h.

*       Multiple occurrences of the same subfields $a, $b, $d, $e, $f, $g, $j should be grouped together.

*       Single occurrences and grouped multiple occurrences of subfields $h, $m, $n should follow the subfield or group of subfields to which they apply.

MARC 21 explicitly states that language codes in subfields $a should be in the order of their predominance in the resource; if no language is predominant, the codes should be in alphabetical order.

MARC 21 also states that in subfields $b (summary/abstract) and $f (table of contents), codes should be alphabetical.  Presumably, that is because the notion of predominance would not generally apply to these elements.  There is no guidance about the order of other groups of subfields.  To my mind, predominance would be the logical order for the rest, if it can be determined, otherwise alphabetical.

If you are looking for guidance about the higher order of subfield groupings following subfields $a or $d and any related subfields $k and/or $h, there really isn't any.  Alphabetical makes as much sense as anything.  This would be a prime candidate for not agonizing over.

Hope this helps and isn't too convoluted or confusing.

Jay


Jay Weitz
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From: OnLine Audiovisual Catalogers electronic discussion list. [mailto:OLAC-L at OCLC.ORG] On Behalf Of Keenan, Teressa
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Subject: [OLAC-L] FW: order of subfields in 041

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order of subfields in 041

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Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:44:24 -0500

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Karen Benko <kbenko at williams.edu><mailto:kbenko at williams.edu>

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Hello all,

In the course of our recent conversation about intertitles, there was more than one passing mention of the 041 and the order of the subfields within it. I am finally inspired to ask a question that I should have asked years ago: to what extent does the order of subfields in 041 matter?

There is very little information on this question in BF&S, and only slightly more in the LC MARC bibliographic documentation, mostly pertaining to subfields m and n, which I have never used and expect to use very rarely if ever. So assuming the order is deemed to matter, is there another source that gives complete information about what it should be?

Thanks,

Karen
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Karen Gorss Benko
Catalog Librarian
Collection liaison to Russian and English
Williams College
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Karen.Gorss.Benko at williams.edu<mailto:Karen.Gorss.Benko at williams.edu>
413-597-4322


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