Hi all,
We have frequent requests for titles at a scope higher than the bib
record level. An example would be for any copy of The Bean Trees
where hard back, trade, mass market or large print is alright but an
audiobook or an abridged edition is not. At this point, I'm just
thinking this through and have not delved into the code for it. It
seems like the code to trap a hold could be generalized into a query
string. However, searching the title string would be both slow,
because it is free text, and error prone, also because it is free
text. Placing titles under authority control could address these
problems by providing a simple record number check against the title
field. As a side bonus, it may simplify Deb's homebound question and
RDA cataloging if/when we get there. I suspect it would also be a
fairly vast undertaking that could break many things. How do the
potential benefits stack against the costs?
Any thoughts on the good and ugly of this are welcome.
Paul Waak
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