On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:39:13AM -0700, Mark Jordan wrote: > When creating new records, do I have to construct all positions of 008 > manually (specifically, 00-05 - Date entered on file)? Anything else I > should know about, like 008's relationship to the record leader?
Yeah, if you want an 008 you have to make it yourself. MARC::Record will make no attempt to build an 008 automatically based on information in the leader. //Ed