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Melvyl Enhancements – January 2014: Data from MARC fields/subfields added to display

OCLC brought in one enhancement to WorldCat Local impacting Melvyl on January 13, 2014, described below.
The running list of release notes can be found at http://www.cdlib.org/services/d2d/melvyl/public/.   (Note that many of these do not have an impact on Melvyl.)

Data from MARC fields/subfields added to display

OCLC added MARC fields and subfields in support of RDA cataloging, as well as to provide users with more descriptive information about the items they are viewing.  See examples below:

  • MARC 518 — Event Notes

 

MARC 518 -- Event Notes

  • MARC 255 Cartographic Mathematical Data

 

MARC 255 -- Cartographic Mathematical Data

  • MARC 502 (additional subfields)

 

•MARC 502 (additional subfields)

  •  MARC 533 — Reproduction Notes

 

MARC 533 -- Reproduction Notes