Follett VERSION 6.00 - Manual (Page 358)

04/04 358 Cataloging
Cataloging electronic resources, especially Web sites, can be a timeĆconsuming
task. Here's a list of questions to ask before investing your time:
S Audience: Will your patrons use this resource?
S Stability: If the 856 tag connects to a Web site, how confident are you that the
site will exist tomorrow?
S Validity: Who will determine if a Web site is appropriate for your patrons
and what are the implications of providing this information?
S Accuracy: How often will you verify that a site still exists and is still valid?
Who will do this?
S Time: How much time can be allotted to creating and maintaining these
references?
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Related materials
The 856 tag can direct patrons to electronic resources related to the item described
in the MARC record. Just add an 856 tag with a second indicator of 2.
Example: A print book with references to related electronic files:
245 10 _aMoby Dick, or, The whale /
_cHerman Melville ; illustrated by Rockwell Kent.
. . .
856
42 _uhttp://www.robinsonresearch.com/literate/authors/Melville.htm
_zBiographical data on Herman Melville
856 42 _uhttp://www.melville.org/corresp.htm
_zMelville’s Letters to Hawthorne
856 42 _uhttp://www.kwm.org/
_zKendall Whaling Museum Online
856 42 _uhttp://www.whalesci.org/
_zThe Institute of Cetacean Research home page
856 42 _ufile://myserver/hypertext files/whaling.htm
_zWhaling facts and images
_2file
Using virtual" 856 tags
Perhaps you've found an educational Web site about polar bears. Wouldn't it be
nice if you could add a single 856 tag and have it appear in every bibliographic
record about polar bears? If you use authority records and have good subject
headings in your bibliographic records, you can.
Authority records can be used to create virtual" 856 tags in the OPACs,
Cataloging (OPAC Display only) , and WebCollection Plus. This means that if you
add an 856 tag to an authority record, you can display the contents of that tag with
every related bibliographic record.