On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:52:17PM -0500, Ed Summers wrote: > 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
That's fine, I just thought I'd ask since the wording "Will force update of the ldr based on any existing hash version" in the MARC.pm pack_008 docs seemed particularly portentous and made me think there was something deeply significant I was missing. Out of curiosity, why did you remove this functionality -- because, as Jason suggests, you're "not a fan of the bibliographic specific methods in MARC::Record"? Mark Mark Jordan Acting Coordinator of Library Systems W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada Phone (604) 291 5753 / Fax (604) 291 3023 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.sfu.ca/~mjordan/
