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Scope: These are the edits that Cataloging & Metadata Services or RMC staff routinely make when updating the catalog record for a manuscript or archival collection.

Contact: Margaret Nichols

Unit: Cataloging & Metadata Services or RMC

Date last updated: 02/02/2015

Date of next review: January 2016


Note: You need not update APPM records (040 $e appm) to DACS. Routine Deletes

035 field: Delete duplicate 035 fields.

100 field: Delete $u (Cornell University Class of 19xx); cut it and paste the information into a 545 field.

510 field: Delete entire field if it says: 510 3_ $a Described in REPORT OF THE CURATOR AND ARCHIVIST, [date]

Routine Edits

245 field

Incorporate the creator's name, if there is one, into the beginning of the title.

Old version:

245 00 $a Harold Creal. Papers or

245 00 $kPapers

Change text and punctuation to: 245 00 $aHarold 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

506 field

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

655 field

Old version: 655 7 $aPhotoprints.$2ftamc

Change to: 655 7 $aPhotographs.$2aat [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NOTE: The FTAMC file has been superseded by the Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT).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.

656 field

Example:

656 $a Physicians. $2 lcsh

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.

696 field

The 69x MARC tags are no longer used. Change 696 to a 600 10 for a person's name (600 14 if it's really a local heading), 610 2_ for a group or organization (610 24 if it's a local heading), or a 650 _4 for a local subject heading (such as Regional history).

852 field

If the 852 field contains Cornell University. $b Dept. of Rare Books, OR $b History of Science Collections, OR  $b Fiske Icelandic Collection, OR $b Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, delete it. These no longer exist as separate departments in the Library.

If the 852 field contains $aNIC$j[collection number], you don't need to delete it.

Parting shots

  1. If in doubt about a change or deletion, ask before doing anything.
  2. After the Voyager record is corrected, be sure to add a 948 field for catalog maintenance (macro: [comma comma] mc). This will ensure that the corrections get loaded into OCLC.


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