Contents notes
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Add and enhance contents notes whenever possible to improve patron access. Basic 505 can be added to the items that do not require the enhanced 505. NOTE: The character length is 3992 characters. Make a second 505 field when the data will be longer.
- Enhanced contents notes are required for the following if there are 100 or fewer in the collection:
- Short story collections by multiple authors
- Collections of plays
- Literary collections (two or more forms of literature)
- Collections of fairy tales
- Song titles in sheet music
- Song titles in Music CDs
- Supreme Court cases
- Collective biographies
- Series titled “Representative American Speeches” and “Best American Essays”
- Contents notes are not required for the following
- Poetry
- Speeches (EXCEPTION: Representative American Speeches)
- Essays (EXCEPTION: Best American Essays)
- Excerpts
- Complete works
- Myths
- Fake-books
- Encyclopedic reference works
- Miscellaneous writings— quotations, letters, anecdotes
- Chapter headings
OCLC Connexion Macro for Enhancing the 505
You can use a macro in OCLC Connexion to enhance the 505. This macro adds in the appropriate subfields to the 505 tag. This macro is in the NikAdds macro book. To enhance the 505, run the macro called Joels505. To install the macro, download the macro file that corresponds with you version of Connexion. At this time, there is only a macro book for OCLC Connexion v. 2.63.