Hello Elizabeth and many thanks for your response, very much appreciated.
Jackie
--On 15 June 2006 10:07 -0400 Elizabeth O'Keefe <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> We use the 008 field as the display field for date in Title Lists. The
> user can sort a title list by ascending or descending date, which often
> helps sort out primary material or early editions of a work from later
> editions.
>
> We provide users with the ability to limit by language, country of
> publication or origin, or date of creation or publication. All these
> limits are based on values in the 008 field.
>
> We have used values in the 008 field to generate various types of
> reports. For example, we used 008 values for place and date to identify
> which manuscripts within the medieval and Renaissance manuscripts
> collection fall within the scope of the Index of Christian Art, which is
> collaborating with us on a digitization project. When doing cleanup for
> recon, we create reports looking for missing or unknown values in the
> language field or the place field, then go after those records to supply
> the missing values.
>
> Elizabeth O'Keefe
>
>
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>>>> [log in to unmask] 6/14/2006 6:21 AM >>>
> Dear All, Can anyone give me some examples of how they use the 008
> field for searching/selecting specific types of material or for
> administrative procedures.
>
> Many thanks
> Jackie Pearce
>
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> Subject Librarian
> University of Liverpool.
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Jacqueline Pearce BA(Hons), MCLIP.
Subject Librarian
University of Liverpool.
VAT NO. GB 673 5988 75
Tel: 0151 794 2686
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