Better Web Access to the MARC Code Lists

[Jonathan David Makepeace]

I've just mounted some quick HTML to demonstrate how we could have better
access to MARC code lists on the Web.  It's at: 

http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~makepeac/alphabet.html

Please don't make permanent links to that URL, since I've only mounted it 
for demonstration purposes.  It'll go away in a couple of weeks' time.  I 
didn't invent this.  Others have shown me similar coding, including Shane 
White of the University of Western Australia.

If you like it, would you please tell OCLC's webweaver about it?  Their
website comment form is at: <http://www.oclc.org/oclc/forms/w3serf.htm>. 
IMHO they've got the best MARC Code Lists on the Web at
<http://www.oclc.org/oclc/man/code/codetoc.htm>,  and I'd like to see them
mark those lists up for this kind of access.  (I'd happily do it for
them.)

If you copy my alphabet URL above (please feel free) you'll also need to 
copy the following file into the same directory: 
<http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~makepeac/usmarclang.html>. 

Thank you!

--  Jonathan David Makepeace     Monograph Cataloger/Automation Specialist
    LSU Libraries, 30 Middleton  Tel. (504) 388-3331, Fax. (504) 388-6992
    Louisiana State University   http://www.lib.lsu.edu/tecsrv/
    Baton Rouge, LA 70803-3300   mailto:notjdm at unix1.sncc.lsu.edu