Joseph Galron
Thu, 08 May 2008 07:28:13 -0700
I am against change! (i did not vote for the senator from illinois :-) ) We should explain OCLC and ask them to remove their example. Yossi On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Lovins, Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joan, > > We've been operating with the same understanding as LC going back as far as > I remember (back to the days of Leonard Matthless): to use the code 's' with > the first of the two possible gregorian dates. I think in my own mind I > argued that it really *wasn't* a questionable date; we knew the date in the > Hebrew calendar. It was the conversion into Gregorian terms that introduced > the uncertainty, not the date itself. Sort of splitting hairs, I realize, > but it had a certain logic to it. Maybe we should reconsider now that we've > been assimilated into the One Big Utility? > > -- Daniel > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joan C Biella > Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 4:17 PM > To: heb-naco@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu > Subject: 260$c and Type of date (008/06) > > Friends, > > Here is a piece, or two pieces, of information which may interest you--or > they may make you tear your hair and shriek "Is there no justice?!" In > spite of this risk, I think you should know. > > I received a query about how to code the fixed field for "Type of date" > (008/06) when the 260$c has a year of the Jewish calendar followed by the > two equivalent Gregorian years in brackets--e.g., > > $c 744 [1983 or 1984] > > Which is right for the fixed field, (1) "q" (questionable date) followed by > the two possible Gregorian years in the Date1 and Date2 fixed fields, or (2) > "s" (single date) followed by the earlier Gregorian date in the Date1 field? > > As you know, LC follows practice (2), putting "s" in the 008/06 and, in the > above example, "1983" in the 008/07-10. But many other libraries follow > practice (1) and use "q." > > I inquired into this problem, and found the justification for LC's practice > in the discussion of the code "s" at > http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd008a.html > or > http://www.itsmarc.com/crs/Bib0466.htm > > But I also learned that OCLC documentation, using the same "744" example, > says to code it "q" (questionable date). Why OCLC chooses to do this I > don't know, but it sure explains why a lot of these are coded "q" in the > OCLC database! > > Joan > > > -- Joseph (Yossi) Galron-Goldschlaeger Head, Hebraica & Jewish Studies Library The Ohio State University Libraries 6001 Ackerman Library, 610 Ackerman Road Columbus, Ohio 43202-4500 USA E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel.: (614) 292-3362, Fax: (614)292-1918 URL: http://library.osu.edu/sites/jdc/jdc.php Lexicon of Modern Hebrew Literature: http://hebrewlit.notlong.com