URLs in web-based catalog records (856 marc field)

[Alejandro Garza Gonzalez]

What we are doing is a bit different than pointing to 'the same' resource
on the Internet of, say, TIME Magazine. Since we have Web pages defined
for databases such as ABI-Inform, we have hyperlinked our III Webpac to
the appropriate database for each journal we own (when that journal is in
that database). We still haven't decided what to do for the site that's
mantained on the Internet that mirrors the articles for each journal... 

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  ITESM Centro de Informacion-Biblioteca Monterrey
  agarza at campus.mty.itesm.mx
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On Wed, 7 May 1997, Melissa Silvestre wrote:

> Hello. Now that we have a web-based opac (III), we are discussing
> if/how to use the 856 field to put hotlinks to web resources in.
> After much discussion with our catalogers (I am reference myself),
> we have come down to two differing philosophies:
> 
> 1. Every "bib" record should represent a separate thing - thus,
>    any web item should have its own separate bib record
>    regardless of whether the electronic is an exact replica of
>    the print, and especially if it is not exactly the same (eg.
>    is enhanced with hotlinks etc).
> 
> versus
> 
> 2. If the print is already in our collection, and the electronic
>    is virtually the same as the print and likely that the user
>    who finds the print record would like to know about the electronic,
>    we should use the 856 field in the bib record for the print
>    item as a "see also" reference conceptually.
> 
> Of course, the case where there is no print equivalent is a separate
> issue. 
> 
> How are others handling this issue? Are you making separate records
> always, or when the electronic is different enough?
> 
> This seemed directly relevant to this list, but if you think I should
> take the question to a more cataloging-oriented list, please direct
> me.
> 
> Melissa S.
> 
> 
> Melissa Silvestre  silvest at umslvma.umsl.edu   http://www.umsl.edu/~silvest/
> Reference Librarian, University of Missouri-St. Louis   (314) 516-6473
>