Why don't systems use the 900 fields for local stuff like this? That's what they're there for, right? --Casey On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Steve Oberg <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Eric, > > This is definitely not a feature of MARC but rather a feature of your local > ILS (Aleph 500). Those are local fields for which you'd need to make a > translation to a standard MARC field if you wanted to move that information > to another system that is based on MARC. > > Steve > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > Are alpha characters used for field names valid in MARC records? > > > > When we do dumps of MARC records our ILS often dumps them with FMT and > CAT > > field names. So not only do I have glorious 246 fields and 100 fields but > I > > also have CAT fields and FMT fields. Are these features of my ILS -- > > extensions of the standard -- or really a part of MARC? Moreover, does > > something like Marc4J or MARC::Batch and friends deal with these alpha > field > > names correctly? > > > > -- > > Eric Lease Morgan > > >