The new interpretation of the code "m" for machine file as not applying
to print matter in machine readable form (now to be "a") leaves us in a
quandary. The function the code served for us (ff 31 on Catss) was that
it created a code in the hitlist so that one could distinguish the
record for the CD-ROM from he one for the print version. Now that
function will be lost. There is no plan to change records
retrospectively. If a code is not uniformly applied, what use is it?
We have also heard that the Catss code ff 68 for accompanying materials
(which we used for print media with non book, disk with book, etc.) is
also to be no more with harmonization of the various MARCs.
Whatever utility some fixed fields had is rapidly vanishing.
Mac
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