URLs in MARC records (MARC tag 856)

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Information needed to locate and access an electronic resource. The field may be used in a bibliographic record for a resource when that resource or a subset of it is available electronically. In addition, it may be used to locate and access an electronic version of a non-electronic resource described in the bibliographic record or a related electronic resource.

URLs are allowed in the SHARE catalog. The information accessed through the link must be available to anyone regardless of library membership.

 

Examples of use:

Recommended:

856        4 1 ǂz Click here to view resource in the Library of Congress' Historic American Buildings Survey, Engineering Record, Landscapes Survey Collection: ǂu https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/oh1932/

Additional Examples:

856        4 1 ǂu http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ilmadcgs/ ǂy Madison County, Illinois, Genealogical Society

856        4 2 ǂ3 Finding aid ǂu http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3k4035h6

856         4 1 ǂ3 Digital images ǂu http://purl.stanford.edu/sf410vr6716

 

Adopted 10-2023