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Collection Management Procedures: MARC 856 field formatting

MARC 856 Field Formatting

There are basically 3 (or 4) elements that comprise the URL in the 856 (delimiters 4 & 0):

  1. Pipe + Subfield 3 + text string “University of Memphis authorized users” (always the same) > “|3University of Memphis authorized users”
  2. Pipe + Subfield u  + ezxproxy URL “https://ezproxy.memphis.edu:3443/login?url=” (always the same) > “|uhttps://ezproxy.memphis.edu:3443/login?url=”
  3. URL to Ebook on hosted platform, e.g., “http://memphis.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=1771965” (This should be what is provided in download and NOA) > “http://memphis.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=1771965
  4. Temporary note at the end = Pipe + Subfield z +”(Available soon)—(Added when access is pending and removed when access is granted) > "|z(Available soon)

In this example, there are just a couple of problems:

|u|3University of Memphis authorized users|uhttps://ezproxy.memphis.edu:3443/login?url=http://memphis.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=1771965|

  1. The Pipe + Subfield u (“|u”)  at the beginning is extraneous and should be omitted
  2. The Pipe (“|”) at the end is extraneous and should be omitted

It should look like this:

|3University of Memphis authorized users|uhttps://ezproxy.memphis.edu:3443/login?url=http://memphis.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=1771965