[Yulcat-l] Newer MARC 21 characters in NACO records

[Richard Sarcia]

Hello all--

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 do not 
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.

--Rick

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Announcement on Newer MARC 21 Characters in NACO Records

             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:


Spacing underscore
Spacing grave
Opening curly bracket
Closing curly bracket
Spacing tilde
Degree sign
Lower case script L
Phono copyright mark
Copyright mark
Sharp
Inverted question mark
Inverted exclamation mark


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.

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Richard P. Sarcia
Catalog Librarian/NACO Coordinator
Catalog & Metadata Services
Sterling Memorial Library
Yale University
tel: 203.432.6406   fax: 203.432.7231
richard.sarcia at yale.edu
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