Many thanks to Elizabeth O'Keefe of The Morgan Library & Museum. She sent us the necessary coding that enabled my systems librarian to tweak our Ex Libris Voyager display & created exactly what we want in terms of a display. This coding will surely come in handy as we continue to work with RDA elements.
//SIGNED// Patricia Fogler Chief, Cataloging Section (AUL/LTSC) Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center DSN 493-2135 Comm (334) 953-2135 On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, FOGLER, PATRICIA A GS-11 USAF AETC AUL/LTSC wrote: > I am trying to make a local decision on the 502 for our catalog in > preparation for RDA training. I remember some discussions on this topic a > month and 2 ago & am hoping to hear that someone has come up with a good > solution since. > > > With a helpful system-generated label, we get: > > Dissertation Note: Master of Military Art and Science General Studies U.S. > Army Command and General Staff College 2012. > > Are other libraries just accepting this? Continuing with the |a free text > field & full punctuation? Adding punctuation to the subfields? Is there > some other option I've not though of? > > It seems a shame not to start coding this field for our local theses > especially as we start working with RDA, but I'm not liking the options I > feel I have here to bring to my colleagues. > > I'd be interested in what other libraries that catalog a lot of dissertations > are doing with their 502s. > Thanks. > > //SIGNED// > Patricia Fogler > Chief, Cataloging Section (AUL/LTSC) > Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center > DSN 493-2135 Comm (334) 953-2135 > > >
