On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Paul wrote:
At 02:29 PM 8/21/2012 +0530, franc@library.iisc.ernet.in wrote: [snip]
Field 008 has been generated by the MarcEdit tool. Should it be substituted with 260$c using the same tool? I did look up the LoC site to have a better understanding of the field 008. It says character position 07-10 as Date1. Could you please let me know as to what does 'Date1' refer to?
"Date 1/beginning date of publication" -- pls see <http://www.loc.gov/marc/umb/um07to10.html#part10> -- for books (rather than serials, which can also have an "ending date of publication") this date is most often the same as 260$c (for a full discussion of 260$c and 260$g, see <http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd260.html>.)
Paul
Thank you, Paul, for the clarification and also for the pointers. Its still not clear to me as to how should the value of 260$c be assigned to the positions 7-10 of field 008? Thanks and regards, Francis
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