MARC 980 TIND Collection

The MARC 980 field is a local field used by the TIND ILS. It's known as the "Collection" field in TIND, and serves two purposes: identifying the type of MARC record (e.g. MARC Authority versus MARC Bibliographic) and as means of grouping records into Collections of records in the catalog when MARC fixed fields alone are not sufficient.

980__ $$a AUTHORITY
980__ $$a BIB
980__ $$a DB

It is similar to MARC 983 (source of the "Item access" facet) and MARC 991 (used for suppressing records from public display), both of which also depend on Folger staff entering specific text.

Record type

TIND uses MARC for Bibliographic records, Serial holdings records, Authority records, and License records (note: there's no MARC standard for License records, it's just how they're stored in the TIND ILS). All MARC records live in the same database, each with a unique identifier in field 001. TIND knows which editing and display template to associate with which record based on the presence of one of the following in a 980 field:

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Artificial collection

Almost all the groups of records in the "Narrow by collection" box on the Folger catalog home page are automatically created based on the content of the MARC fixed fields. All non-public groups of records, plus the "Online databases" public group, are created based on the content of the MARC 980 tag as follows:

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