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MARC Content Designation Utilization Project first set of results:
<http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2005/12/marc-content-designation-utili
zation.html> 

Basically what these charts tell us in very great detail is what
elements have been included in fixed fields.  What is meant by
"utilization" is not use in OPACs, nor usage by patrons in searching
OPACs, but rather inclusion in MARC records.  They may have been
coded, but totally unused after record creation.  These charts detail
coding practice, and what that tells us about which major cataloguing
agency does what, but nothing else.


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