J. McRee (Mac) Elrod wrote:
MARC handles multiple subject thesauri for our multiple clients quite
handily, with 2nd indicators and $2, allowing us to provide LCSH, RVM,
MeSH, etc. as wished. The same applies to 050 LCC, 055 FCPS or Moys,
060 NLMC, 080 UDC, and 082 DDC.
While I basically
In displays such as above, the designers of WorldCat decided (god
knows why!) to remove any and all additions to names such as fuller
well-known author Henry Miller is the same as the medical writer or
composer of The saucy little widow are left to figure that out some
other way. Those
J. McRee Elrod wrote:
Karen said:
As for managing multiple vocabularies, there shouldn't be a big
difference between managing one or two or a dozen vocabularies ...
By vocabularies do you mean thesauri? If so, why not use that
more precise term? If there is a difference, what is that
Jim said:
An example would be a book by Leo Tolstoy who has the form in the
NAF: Tolstoy, Leo, $c graf, $d 1828-1910 but in the DNB it is:
Tolstoj, Lev N. $d 1828-1910 and in the BNF, it's: Tolstoj $b Lev
Nikolaevic#780; $f 1828-1910 all reflecting cultural needs and
respective coding. If all of
Delightful reading!
I see though that the history of AACR was populated by early missteps,
issues with the efforts of a least one of the editors, concern regarding
the financial implications of implementation, resistance to a new
underlying bibliographic framework, and resistance generally to the
On the technical side I can imagine a set of interoperating systems that
would let one do a truncated search to find Tolstoy's record in a
database of identity records. Once that was selected, all the data would
be sufficiently marked up so that the URL and the appropriate text
string for your
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Mac seems to forget that place of publication was not mandatory in AACR2 either
(see rule 1.0D1 First level of description). This didn't keep most libraries,
including national agencies, from adopting a fuller level of description and
including place of publication in their records.
Daniel
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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:19:28 +1100
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Paradis Daniel wrote:
Mac seems to forget that place of publication was not mandatory in
AACR2 either (see rule 1.0D1
I will also second this, as I am trying to find out information about the
journal Preaching : word and witness. Liturgical Publications. But is it
published in Milwaukee or Berlin, Wisc. ?
Gene Fieg
Cataloger
Claremont School of Theology
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Adam:
Thanks for pointing this out--I've had little experience using WorldCat,
and wasn't really aware of these particular problems. This seems so
counterintuitive--libraries have been complaining for years that their
vendors have made so little use of the richness of MARC records, and
here's
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