We have taken them for years when we import from BDS but like Heather if there aren't any we don't worry.
Andrew Coburn
Acquisitions & Cataloguing Manager
Libraries (Resources)
Essex County Council
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From: Bibliographic standards in UK libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rose-Ann Movsovic
Sent: 10 June 2013 15:17
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Subject: Re: 520 Summary etc field
If a 520 appears in a downloaded record and is objective and informative, rather than publishers' guff, we leave it in. We only add a 520 where this significantly enhances the subject headings. This is because subject blurbs generally appear in our OPAC, for reasonably recent material, via the enhanced content service from Syndetics so the only point in adding it to a recent record is to increase keyword access.
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Rose-Ann Movsovic
Collections Manager
University of Reading Library
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From: Bibliographic standards in UK libraries [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Jane Faux [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 10 June 2013 14:51
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Subject: 520 Summary etc field
Hello,
Does anyone routinely include a 520 Summary etc field in catalogue records? Our OPAC can now display this field so we would like to start coding it, and while it is present in some imported records it is not present in our older catalogue records or any original cataloguing we do. How do people derive the summary? Would transcribing the blurb on the back of a book be sufficient?
Thanks for your time
Jane
Jane Faux BSc(Hons) MSc MCLIP
Education Liaison Librarian
Library
Newman University
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