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Lisa Hatt <[log in to unmask]>
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MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 4 Oct 2021 11:11:32 -0700
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On 10/1/2021 1:28 PM, Fox, Chris wrote:

> Lisa, this works great!  In your experience editing 505s, how long is
> too long? Chris

It's just occurred to me I was thinking of 520s, not 505s, haha. But I 
draw the line at about 1600 characters. That's not near the functional 
limit but it starts being a wall of text at that point, and especially 
with Kanopy records, when the summaries are that long it tends to be 
fluff (movie review blurbs and stuff). 505 might be a bit of a different 
animal, since unless it's "Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3" it is usually 
actually useful information, albeit maybe someone copied and pasted 
something with too much depth (individual section titles or something). 
Probably I would try to keep a 505 under 2000?

-- 
Lisa Hatt
Cataloging | De Anza College Library
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