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*Hi and thank you Ross, Jonathan, and Andy, I do wish someone from LC would answer Jonathan's questions for all codes and geographic subdivision or subject implications. There's so much self-inflicted pain I can go through trying to revive my cataloging days. Here are some clarifications though: List of Geographic Areas is the macro list, whereby List of countries includes only countries as a subset from the macro list. MARC Code List for Countries [choice of a MARC code is generally related to information in field 260 (Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)). The code recorded in 008/15-17 is used in conjunction with field 044 (Country of Producer Code) when more than one code is appropriate to an item.] MARC Geographic Area Codes are codes entered (according to geographic names in the 6xx fields) in field 043.* * * *The Country Codes and Geographic Area Codes are entered bureaucratically, bypassing Jonathan's refined distinctions. These tasks are outsourced to agencies separate from the catalogers assigning LCSH.* * * *Now it starts getting uglier, since upkeep for these lists differs in time and agency. Possibly new territory names are done now by NATO ... You would expect to see the same name in a code list and in a geographic name (151) . Sometimes you won't. Sometimes you'll see redundancies which confuse even more. So since:* 1. *LCSH has mistakes, inconsistencies* 2. *LC doesn't talk to CODE4LIB to answer our questions* 3. *OCLC will not talk to LC on our behalf* *we can create the geographic name list(s) we need. Since we know that 6xx forms for geographic names appear in 151 and 781 fields, we can create an index for those names for matching to 6xx in LCSH. Andrew, please complete/comment-on this list.* * * *Ya'aqov* * * * *