Adding to the visibility of 500 fields, we would like to suggest that the fields be connected to the specific material type that is displayed in Vega. So the 520 field for an audiobook will be displayed when the user clicks the audiobook, and the physical copy will display the 500 fields from that entry, and so on.

For example, we've noticed that the content in an invisible 520 field will generate search results in certain situations. For example, a search for "Patricia Cornwell" will produce a few e-audiobooks by Chris Carter because Patricia Cornwell is mentioned as a comparision to Carter in the e-audiobook's 520 field. However, Vega displays the 520 field from another version of the book where Cornwell isn't mentioned at all. From a user's perspective it's difficult to see why the search results for Carter were included at all. We imagine it's even more difficult to know why a certain result is being produced if one is searching for a more general term, rather than a specific author.

This is important information to make readily available to our customers with hearing concerns.

Our customers need to know if a DVD has closed captioning. This is necessary for those with low hearing.

Our customers need to know if a DVD has closed captioning!

A patron shared insightful comments highlighting the importance of note fields, especially the ability to determine if a video offers subtitles for the hearing impaired.

"For more detail, I now have the DVD “Trouble in Paradise" (1932) checked out. Here are some of the things that do not appear in the new presentation that were quickly seen in the old one.

1) "Video recordings for the hearing impaired.” Knowing there are subtitles is important to me. (Note: This data is available in the 546 field of the record in question.)

2) "I don’t see the year of the film (1932) in the new catalog. (Note: While the publication date of 2003 is included, the 500 field that states “Originally produced as a motion picture in 1932” is absent.)”

The 506 field is important to my library. We hold some items which are Restricted to certain users. Lack of display of 5XX fields means this important information is invisible to borrowers.

Patrons often need this additional information to determine if they have located the item that they want.

Already receiving feedback from patrons that they are missing this information. It would be extremely helpful to include the 5XX fields for both our patrons and staff.

This is absolutely critical information to have in every record in a library catalog.

Displaying all 505 fields is critical for music score compilation books.

Displaying the 546 (language) would be especially beneficial in making the catalog accessible for those who are looking for DVDs/Blu-Rays with closed captioning or subtitles. We currently refer several of our hearing-impaired patrons to the Encore version of the catalog, for this purpose.

I get constant complaints about this information not displaying in DVDs and CDs. This is something that would really help our patrons and minimize the grief our librarians get from them sometimes around Vega.

This would be very helpful

The (5XX) field is greatly beneficial! Thank you!!

Our catalogers agree wholeheartedly with this suggestion, and I found this request because we were about to add it ourselves.

Our cataloging team gave me the following information that I'll share:

"If you can only persuade Vega to show three additional tags, I think that the 500, 520, and 700 tags are the most important.

500 - general notes (most important as varied information is placed in 500 field, including sequel notes, publishing histories, oddity notes, etc.)
501 - with note (used when multiple titles are bound together as they sometimes are in Juvenile Early Readers)
505 - formatted contents (table of contents)
510 - citation/reference notes
511 - participant or performer note (especially important for AV)
520 - summary (already included?)
521 - target audience note (including MPAA ratings)
538 - system details note (system requirements, especially important for AV)
540 - terms governing use and reproduction note (legality notes)
546 - language note
586 - awards note (some readers may be seeking LAMBDA, Caldecott award winners, etc.)
590 - local note (not frequently used at MCPL but helpful to see when present)
700 - add entry -- personal name (contributors and their relators, VERY important)
710 - added entry -- corporate name (corporate contributors like production studios, etc., especially important for video games)
856 - electronic location and access (links, should display no matter what indicators are selected)

It's been 15 months since this idea was introduced to the Idea Exchange, to overwhelming support.

As a cataloger, it is disappointing not to see much of our "work" displayed in Vega records. It would benefit patrons to have note field information in Vega records to determine if the material is the item that best matches their needs.

REQUEST: Note fields include useful information that is meant to be displayed to users. This information helps users decide if the resource described is relevant to their needs. 
A subtitle that appears only on the cover of a book might only appear in a 500 note. A note might specify that a resource is a reprint of an earlier publication or give the original title of a translation, just to name a few examples. 
Most notes are repeatable, so all instances of these MARC fields should display when there are multiple. Currently, only the first 505 (Contents note) and the 520 fields display. 
FEATURE DETAILS 
Job Story: As a Vega User, I can view all notes from the bibliographic 5xx metadata for a give edition of a work.
Acceptance Criteria: 
Index and display all 5xx field data from MARC instance records in the details popup of editions table. 
Data will appear under a Notes heading in order.

From original idea: https://ideas.iii.com/forums/951766-vega-discover/suggestions/46841806-display-more-note-5xx-fields

Absolutely need need need 505 (contents), 511 (Participants), 521 (Where we put parental advisory notes if we have them), 540 (Where we put the "home use only note in DVD's),546 (Language note, where we currently put closed captioning note). Would also like 504 (bib and index) and 532(where we would ideally like to put closed captioning)

Having subsequent instances of the MARC 505 Contents note display in Vega is critical for music CDs - we have multiple support tickets from our libraries asking why the full contents are not displaying. This should be pulled out as a MUST HAVE, and the rest of these can be optional based on what most libraries want.