Karen said: >the original date of publication. Re-issued versions of classics have >dates like "2008" and no where in the bib record does it say that the >Work dates from, say, 1813. Yes. Vital information. And MARC had a field for it, 503. Which was also good for "Originally released as a motion picture ..." in DVD records. Perhaps this data will be added to the new 264? But that would not be as good as consistency with legacy records. I fail to understand why seldom needed esoteric fields are added, while such a basic one is removed. A measure of which MARC fields have been coded is no measure of whether they have been used for discovery by systems, and no guide to data needed in a future coding system. Some needed data. such as original publiction date, has often been neither coded nor utilized by systems. __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod ([log in to unmask]) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________