hi,
some 20-25 years ago each system (other than oclc) was
implementing mnemonic tags or labels of one kind
or another. it obviously became more efficient for
those that needed to know to learn the tags directly
instead of learning one set of labels for LC, another
for RLIN, anorhter for NOTIS, etc.
i suppose all of this would have been moot if MARC
had started out with mnemonics rather than numbers.
-r
A. Ralph Papakhian, Indiana University Music Library
Bloomington, IN 47405 812/855-2970 [log in to unmask]
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