My Blacklight-based catalog makes use of the 043's when present. It's
certainly not true that "no" online system ever made use of it.
On 6/12/2012 12:55 PM, Kevin M Randall wrote:
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Unfortunately, most people did not bother with the 043 field, in
particular, because no
> -Original Message-
> Unfortunately, most people did not bother with the 043 field, in
> particular, because no online system (including OCLC) made use of it. So
> now we are finding that we shouldn't make use of the 043 because the
> information is not in online bibliographic records bec
And now we have the BIBCO and CONSER standard records used by PCC
libraries and the 043 is not part of the floor element set, so many PCC
libraries have
stopped including it in new records.
^^
Adam L. Schiff
Principal Cataloger
University of Washington Libra
Karen said:
What you demonstrate here, though, is something important: coded data
can be more easily utilized for this kind of functionality than
textual data.
Definitely. For instance, it was very easy to set up both a German and
an English version of the facet. You don't have to change
antia
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"...EMPHATICALLY it is not the preferred format that staff want to work in.
Rather staff love the tabular format, where elements are a
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The irony here is lovely. The MARC fixed fields for country and language
codes and the 043 and 041 were originally designed for automated retrieval
at a time when there were if any online catalogs. In the computer
environment
Laurence,
Think of the message to users if they search on a value that is only
present in 1/2 of the records it would be relevant for. You can decide
that it's ok to give people only 50% of what they should get, but then
what does that do for Thomas's insistence that the role of the library
c
The irony here is lovely. The MARC fixed fields for country and language
codes and the 043 and 041 were originally designed for automated retrieval
at a time when there were if any online catalogs. In the computer
environment of the 1960s and 1970s, even the 1980s, retrieval by the codes
would ha
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"How that data is searched is a matter of the ILS, not AACR2 or MARC."
The last point is profoundly wrong.
Traditional cataloging still assumes a structure
On 6/7/12 10:02 AM, Heidrun Wiesenmüller wrote:
The country codes have been there in our authority file for two or
three decades, but up to now I believe they have never been used for
actual retrieval. Perhaps something similar could be done with the
geographical area codes in MARC field 043?
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Mac said:
With the end of the card catalogue, too many of us abandoned catalogue
construction to computer people, and limited ourselves to under
utilized bibliographic record creation
I think this is a very important insight.
One of my mottoes is "Make our data work harder", because there ar
nndorfer
Guelph Public Library
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Heidrun said:
>Correct me if I've misunderstood how Anglo-American catalogs work. I've
>just tried it out in
Heidrun said:
>Correct me if I've misunderstood how Anglo-American catalogs work. I've
>just tried it out in your own catalog: Typing in, e.g. "lew tolstoi war
>peace" in "keyword" doesn't give me even one edition, let alone all of
>them ...
This has nothing to do with AACR2 cataloguing, but
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