To build on Mary Jane's point, I think that the examples are useful but
that there are also some serious omissions in that section of the NACO
manual. There's no mention of $u at all and there isn't even one
example showing a URL being used in a 670. In fact, the formula given
there for including URLs is contributing to the problem because it
shows the URL embedded in $a with other information:
Internet,
URL: [URL address],[date of search] $b ([information])
Since we're all supposed to be following the NACO manual, it's not
surprising to me that we are not finding uniform practice. If there
were an example to guide usage, I think we would all gratefully follow
it.
Celine Noel
UNC-Chapel Hill
Mary Jane Cuneo wrote:
[log in to unmask]" type="cite">Wayne,
I do the same thing. I think of it as the equivalent of citing "t.p."
or "p. [whatever]" in 670 when the source is a book. There is an
example in the NACO Participants' Manual. (Section I: New Authority
Records/ 670 Field / XV.Citing Internet Resources, third example: |b
contact us page -- an especially nice example for the informal
internet-flavored language, which is indeed what we usually end up
citing.)
Mary Jane Cuneo
Serials cataloging and NACO
Fine Arts Library
Harvard University
Wayne Richter wrote:
<snip> In citing these in 670s I usually use "history
page" or "history pages" following the name of the web site, and
followed by the date viewed. I rarely find the information I need on
the
home page so I wonder if this is common and recommended practice (i.e.
citing particular areas of a web site)?
Thank you.
Wayne Richter
Asian Materials Specialist/PCC Liaison
The Libraries
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA 98225-9103