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I was wanting to test searching by MARC code. Can you provide me a little help?
Laura Guy — May 11, 2022
Sure! Go to catalog.folger.edu and click the “Search Tips” link near the bottom of the screen. There’s a “MARC Fields” section about halfway down the Search Tips page.
We’ll be posting a Folger-specific guide that links to Folger cataloging policy for the different fields, including local fields, but that’s still being written. Meanwhile, keep in mind that copy-specific notes for published materials are in in MARC 852$z, while equivalent notes for manuscripts, drawings, and other unpublished material are in their specialized MARC fields (e.g., MARC 561 for provenance, MARC 563 for binding description).
Try copy-and-pasting this into the search box, for example: 336%%a:"still image" AND 600:"taming of the shrew" NOT 655:(photographs OR paintings)
(that’s just a random off-the-top-of-my-head example of the syntax, not a search anyone is likely to want to do)
Erin Blake — May 11, 2022
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I was wanting to test searching by MARC code. Can you provide me a little help?
Laura Guy — May 11, 2022
Sure! Go to catalog.folger.edu and click the “Search Tips” link near the bottom of the screen. There’s a “MARC Fields” section about halfway down the Search Tips page.
We’ll be posting a Folger-specific guide that links to Folger cataloging policy for the different fields, including local fields, but that’s still being written. Meanwhile, keep in mind that copy-specific notes for published materials are in in MARC 852$z, while equivalent notes for manuscripts, drawings, and other unpublished material are in their specialized MARC fields (e.g., MARC 561 for provenance, MARC 563 for binding description).
Try copy-and-pasting this into the search box, for example:
336%%a:"still image" AND 600:"taming of the shrew" NOT 655:(photographs OR paintings)(that’s just a random off-the-top-of-my-head example of the syntax, not a search anyone is likely to want to do)
Erin Blake — May 11, 2022