>North American practice does not employ multilevel description very
>much, and therefore the MARC practice is not highly developed.
It *would* be nice to have UKMARC's 248 for constituent titles,
leaving 740 as related works, also allowing direct access by title as
opposed to 700$a$t.
>There are libraries (mostly special) that do significant cataloging
>of >offprints, analytics, separates, etc., usually using homegrown
>techniques. Various MARC fields have been used for this, including
>773, other 76X-78X fields, 4XX/8XX with larger work treated as
>series,
Our customers prefer the 440/8XX approach, since all their ILS's can
handle that, they sometimes do not have the master record for the 7XX
linking fields to link to, as well as many ILS's making a mess of
using them.
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