Steven: In my current ILS I take care of the following Items: Price, Currency (Pesos Uruguayos, Dollars, Euro) and exchange rate. This is important for us, we keep track of our books in both local currency and the foreing currency of the country they were purchased (we import many books), remeber that I live in a developing country (with inflation) and exchange rate matters here. Andres Baljkas Family wrote:
Wednesday, October 6, 2004 01:10 CDT
Hi, Stephen et al.,
Just 2 cents on the MARC matter.
To be accurate, MARC21 makes *no* assumption about currency type/s. That is left for humans doing the coding to worry about. In Canada, we are so used to entering prices twice (first for CDN, second for USD) it is a non-issue. All Andres should do is make sure his library's cataloguing policy allows for the different entries.
You will find that exempla for use of MARC21 on the LC website and elsewhere are mostly (i.e. almost all) using USD as the default. Sort of *cuius regio, eius religio*.
And one other minor correction, Stephen: the catalogue record has multiple points at which you can track currency (I wouldn't see the point in noting the exchange rate, but maybe I am just not OCD enough), not the least of which is within the $c qualifier ("the price or a brief statement of availability and [my emphasis] **any parenthetical information qualifying the information**").
Just FYI.