At 01:46 PM 7/30/2006, Gary L. Strawn wrote: >Isn't it sad that this proposal--which been around in various guises for >years--is being driven this time at least in part by featureless library >systems? What do we pay these vendors for? (I hasten to add that >Northwestern's own batch correction facilities have no problem dealing >with 490s and 8XXs; and we have code in place that in effect undoes what's >proposed here: convert a 490:1 into a 440 and delete the 830 when the 830 >matches the 490:1.) Simply allowing people with inadequate library >systems to use a 490:1/8XX in all cases is a trivial matter, and obviously >doesn't cause serious problems because several institutions have been >doing this for a while. (But please leave the 440 field alone.) Amen, on all counts. I would also note that at least one authority control vendor offers to option to do what Gary describes above: to convert 490:1/8XX to 440 when the content of the two fields match. John Attig Authority Control Librarian Penn State University Libraries University Park, PA [log in to unmask]