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Catalogers may encounter older records in which the 505 is divided into two or more fields, with first indicator 0 for the first 505 notefield, and first indicator 8 for the subsequent 505 field(s). This practice owed to a 2000-character limit per MARC field in Aleph, Alma's predecessor. In Alma, no such limit applies, and newly-created 505 notes should be kept to a single field; again, there . There is no obligation to update existing notes.

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