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Unit: Cataloging & Metadata Services or RMC
Date last reviewed: 02/0109/20162017
Date of next review: January 20172018
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Note: You need not update APPM records (040 $e appm) to DACS.
Routine Deletes
035 field: Delete duplicate 035 fields.
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245 00 $a Harold Creal. Papers or
245 00 $kPapers$k Papers
Change text and punctuation to: 245 00 $aHarold $a Harold Creal papers
The same goes for other generic titles such as 245 00 $k Scrapbook, 245 00 $k Report, 245 00 $k Letter, etc.
545 field
Add first indicator 0 [zero] for a person or family
Add first indicator 1 [zero] for an organization or other corporate body person or family
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Add first indicator 1. Check to see whether the access restriction on the collection has expired. If it has, delete the restriction field
561 field
Add first indicator 1
541 field
Add first indicator 1
655 field
Old version: 655 7 $aPhotoprints$a Photoprints. $2ftamc$2 ftamc
Change to: 655 7 $aPhotographs$a Photographs. $2aat $2 aat [no final punctuation]
NOTE: The FTAMC file has been superseded by the Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT). Check the term in $a subfield in the AAT to make sure it's still correct and up to date.
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The $2lcsh means that this term is a Library of Congress subject heading. First, look it up in Voyager to make sure it's still an authorized subject heading. Then change it to a 650 field with no $2 at the end.Change it to:
Example:
650 _0 $aPhysicians.
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