Frameworks give me the ability to do something I wished my previous catalog could do but didn't--customized OPAC and staff-side field labels (all the way down to the subfield level, which is a really nice bonus). While the "provided" ones focus on format, you have the ability to create brand new ones, so if you have several collection of "regular old books" that you would want to which you want to assign and create new frameworks, you can do so easily. The nature of the current state of my collection doesn't give me the benefit of this that would have been present in the past, but it's something that I've been very grateful to have--and to have total control of them is even better (this was also missing in my old catalog's administrative capabilities). John -=<*>=- -=<*>=- -=<*>=- -=<*>=- -=<*>=- -=<*>=- -=<*>=- -=<*>=- -=<*>=- John E. Sterbenz, Jr. Senior Associate Librarian Manager, Electronic Collections Administration 700 East University Avenue Kresge Hall, 4th Floor East Suite K4511 Kresge Library Services The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 48109-1234 TEL: (734) 764-5746 On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 9:10 AM Caroline Cyr-La-Rose < caroline.cyr-la-rose@inlibro.com> wrote:

Hi Charles,

Frameworks are cataloguing "forms". You can use many different ones or just the default one.

The advantage of using different ones is that you can show different MARC fields and add default values.

For example, you can have one 'Book' framework, where you would show 020 (ISBN), and put the default rda material/support/media codes for printed material in 336, 337 and 338. And you can have a 'DVD' framework, where you would show 024 (CUP), but not 020 and put the default rda material/support/media codes for projected visual in 336, 337 and 338.

Caroline

On 20-07-06 01 h 09, Charles Kelley wrote:

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Hi, all!

I have been looking for an answer to the following question, but I've been unable to find one: What are the purpose and use of the frameworks?

I just don't understand. When I cataloged in a previous library job, I didn't have frameworks. I just cataloged what I needed and if I didn't need something, I didn't use it.

So can someone answer the question, please?

Many thanks.

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