Where should award notes be placed for things such as Newbery, Caldecott, etc.?
The 586 tag is provided for award notes. The INFOhio MARC Record Standards series and the INFOhio Guidelines for Enhancing MARC Records (all available from our INFOhio Cataloging MARC Documents page) may be helpful in entering this information correctly. HOWEVER, the DRA/MultiLIS software currently does not search the 586 tag on an “all fields” or “subject keyword” search. MultiLIS users wishing to perform a search for various awards must enter the award information in a MultiLIS field (document type or subject keyword). An INFOhio conversion table can make this field searchable by copying the data in the 586 tag into a searchable MultiLIS field. (Posted January 9, 2000) Question: What is MARC 21 and should I change my specs for vendors providing MARC records? Answer: It is not necessary to change specs for providers of MARC records. MARC is not a static set of standards. They change. The latest change resulted in USMARC and CAN/MARC being identical. As a result, the new publication of
