Again, can't disagree with anything yet set. I would have thought that the
0XX block would provide a better fit for this kind of information. And in
any case I can't help but note the lack of standard indications for place
and currency.
At 04:04 PM 12/31/2003 -0800, J. McRee Elrod wrote:
> >I'd like to point out that the association of AACR area 3 data with
> >the 251-258 block in MARC 21 isn't very good.
>
>So what happens when we run out of numbers in 25X for area 3
>information for specific media? All the information there is medium
>specific, which is what the original nonbook ISBD (I was on the working
>group) had in mind when we initially created it. It was the second
>ISBD; ISBD(G) did not yet exist.
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