You are probably aware of this, but I want to point out that you will not necessarily be able to guarantee that manipulating the bibliographic display will ensure that your students will consistently pull the information they need for their particular style guide. While I also prefer not to have added entry headings inserted in the author display in the same way a main entry is, cataloging rules often differ from the many citation guidelines. For example, under AACR2 rules, editors do not receive a main entry and are properly in the 700 fields. Most style manuals want editors first in the citation -- the main entry for that style manual, so to speak. So having the editor display as the author might benefit students, except that the heading would not necessarily indicate the person was editor rather than author. That information is in the title field in a bibliographic record. There are also instances where the main entry would be the illustrator and not the author of the narrative portion of the item.
If you use the "cite this item" in WorldCat via First Search you will occasionally find citations there that are not quite correct because of the differences in cataloging rules and the guidelines for citations in the specific style manual. I use this handy feature often in creating special subject bibliographies; but, I know that I need to look at the entire bibliographic record (just as I would need to look at the entire work if I had it in hand) to ensure that I have the proper elements in the proper order for the style guide we use. I do realize that students are going to use the bibliographic record as displayed in the OPAC to pull information for their citations, and most of the time, they will be fine. However, they should understand that there will be occasions when the information they need may be in a different location, just as it may be in a different form, within that bibliographic display than what their citation style guide dictates, whether the display follows the traditional catalog card layout or the Evergreen one. Elaine J. Elaine Hardy PINES Bibliographic Projects and Metadata Manager Georgia Public Library Service, A Unit of the University System of Georgia 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304 404.235-7128 404.235-7201, fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.georgialibraries.org <http://www.georgialibraries.org> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Melissa Belvadi Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 3:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] modify handling of Author display (100 vs 700 etc) Hello, all. Right now in the system, or at least ours, if the 100 and 110 tags don't exist, the system will insert the first 700 tag it finds into the "Author" display. In many cases, this is an inappropriate name (eg. in one of our books, it's the name of the illustrator) and will cause students to put incorrect information into their citations in their term papers. We would like to just stop the use of any fields outside of 100 or 110 in the Author field. Ideally we'd like to make this change for both the brief results list and full bib record. How do we do that? Thanks! Melissa --- Melissa Belvadi Emerging Technologies & Metadata Librarian University of Prince Edward Island [EMAIL PROTECTED] 902-566-0581
