Thanks Karen - probably should have known that! That's the nice thing about MARC - always some new thing to cope with :)
Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: [email protected] Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 6 Nov 2012, at 19:37, Karen Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > The "9"s are available in all indicator positions for local use as defined in > the MARC record (not MARC21) spec. [1] So what is in the MARC21 spec under a > particular tag is the "non-local" values. I suspect that most systems just > ignore any '9's they encounter unless those are defined as part of local > system processing. > > kc > [1] http://www.loc.gov/marc/specifications/specrecstruc.html > > > On 11/6/12 10:20 AM, Owen Stephens wrote: >> According to the MARC spec, 035 doesn't support '9' as a valid indicator. My >> very uneducated guess would be the invalid indicator is causing the >> underlying system not to index it? >> >> Owen Stephens >> Owen Stephens Consulting >> Web: http://www.ostephens.com >> Email: [email protected] >> Telephone: 0121 288 6936 >> >> On 6 Nov 2012, at 17:43, Alevtina Verbovetskaya >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Let's say I've defined these indexes in pqf.properties on the SRU server: >>> index.marc.020 = 1=7 # ISBN >>> index.marc.035:1 = 1=1211 # OCLC/utility number where first indicator is >>> non-blank >>> index.marc.100:1 = 1=1 # author where first indicator is non-blank >>> >>> I can use the ISBN index to search for records, e.g.: >>> http://apps.appl.cuny.edu:5661/CENTRAL?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=marc.020="9780801449437"&startRecord=1&maximumRecords=15 >>> >>> I can also use the author index to search for records, e.g.: >>> http://apps.appl.cuny.edu:5661/CENTRAL?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=marc.100:1="Armenteros"&startRecord=1&maximumRecords=15 >>> >>> So why can't I search for records by utility number (035) with a non-blank >>> first indicator? >>> http://apps.appl.cuny.edu:5661/CENTRAL?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=marc.035:1="ebr10488669"&startRecord=1&maximumRecords=15 >>> >>> If you're playing along, you'll notice that these all point to the same >>> record. However, when I try to search for it with >>> &query=marc.035:1="<util_num>", I get no results. I thought maybe this was >>> because there's already another 035 field (with blank indicators) that's an >>> OCLC number so I temporarily removed it... but that didn't solve the issue. >>> >>> Anyone have any experience with this? I need to be able to search by 0359# >>> and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I would greatly appreciate >>> some assistance! >>> >>> Thank you, >>> Allie >>> >>> -- >>> Alevtina (Allie) Verbovetskaya >>> Web and Mobile Systems Librarian (Substitute) >>> Office of Library Services >>> City University of New York >>> 555 W 57th St, 13th fl. >>> New York, NY 10019 >>> T: 646-313-8158 >>> F: 646-216-7064 >>> [email protected] > > -- > Karen Coyle > [email protected] http://kcoyle.net > ph: 1-510-540-7596 > m: 1-510-435-8234 > skype: kcoylenet
