On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Elizabeth Longwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Possible series entries come from 440$a$v as well as 800$t$v (paired with 490 > entry).
Of course, since 440 was made obsolete in 2008 [1], a first step might be to convert all 440s to 490/830 pairs [2]. Then the indexing would need to cover 800$t$n$p, 810$t$n$p, 811$t$n$p, 830$a$n$p, and possibly 490$a, depending on whether you want to index uncontrolled series titles. [1] <http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd4xx.html> [2] Example Perl script for converting extracted files of raw MARC 21 records, though it doesn't currently deal with $x in the best manner: < http://home.comcast.net/~eijabb/fullrecscripts/Cleanup_full_recs/440to490-830.txt> Thank you for your time, Bryan Baldus Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses 1-800-323-4241x402 [email protected] [email protected] http://home.comcast.net/~eijabb/
