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You can have as many 410s with the same initials as you want.  But that 410 field can't have the same NACO comparison form as a 1XX field.  For whatever reason, "CSS" happens to be established as a 130 in n  92034531, so the 410s have to be differentiated..

 

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From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Hostage
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 9:26 AM
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Subject: [PCCLIST] References from initialisms

 

I’ve noticed that qualifiers have been added to initialisms in many cross references, e.g.

410 2  CSS (Child Support Services)

 

and similarly on other references from CSS.  I’ve seen this on other initialisms.  Past practice was to record the initialism alone.  There is no requirement that 4XX fields not conflict with each other.  Has something changed?

 

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