-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 006 in Print record with Ref to Electronic -- Michelle P.
Fiander
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:15:37 -0400
From: Beth Guay <bg53@umail.umd.edu>

Hi Michelle,
Perhaps you have identified an editorial error. These things happen to
those who nit-pick,
i.e., catalogers! I think that the last sentence quoted below should
read: OCLC's guidelines
are compatible with CONSER's. {Period} To my understanding, neither OCLC
nor CONSER permit the
addition of a 006 for computer file characteristics to a "single" record
describing printed
material and noting the existence of its electronic counter-part. There
is some excellent
guidance on this matter in the CEG, Section E: Technical Guidelines on
the "Use of fixed fields
006/007/008 and Leader Codes in CONSER Records."

Of course, these are my opinions, and not institutional position
statements of any kind!
Cheers,
Beth Guay

Serials Cataloger
University of Maryland
College Park, Md. 20742

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 006 in Print record with Ref to Electronic
> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 11:27:08 -0500
> From: "Fiander, P. Michelle" <mfiander@IUPUI.EDU>
>
>
> Hello,
> I've been reading the OCLC MARC guidelines for Electronic Materials,
> specifically the section on using a "Single record with reference to the
> electronic item."  Isn't there a contradiction between the following two
> statements? It's really confusing me. I hope someone can clarify.
> Thanks,
> Michelle Fiander
>
> 1.      In the step-by-step guidelines for this procedure, it says:  "DO
> NOT
> INPUT FIELD 006 FOR THE ELECTRONIC VERSION."
>
> 2.      Two paragraphs later, however, it says: "CONSER...permits a
> single
> record for a non-electronic item to include information for the
> electronic
> version. OCLC's guidelines are compatible with CONSER's except THAT OCLC
> REQUESTS THAT YOU ADD FIELD 006 as described in this document."
>
>
> See http://www.oclc.org/oclc/cataloging/type.htm
> <http://www.oclc.org/oclc/cataloging/type.htm>  for entire document.