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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:28:31 PST
From:         Elena Romaniuk <ENGIN@UVVM.UVIC.CA>
Subject:      linking fields

At the University of Victoria, 78x fields are not used as access points in the
OPAC, for various reasons. In many cases we do not have the title found in the
78x field. We have never, to my knowledge, discussed the possibility of doing
this, but I think our Public Services people would be against it, since our
patrons would be directed to titles which the Library does not own.

If we need to provide an access point to a title we own, which is not
separately catalogued, we generally provide access using a 730 field.

Elena Romaniuk
University of Victoria, McPherson Library
Victoria, B.C., Canada
(604) 721-8261     BITNET: ENGIN@UVVM     Internet:  ENGIN@UVVM.UVic.CA

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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 12:19:00 PST
From:         Aimee Algier-Baxter <AALGIER@SCU.BITNET>
Subject:      Links and indexing

At Santa Clara University, we had quite a knock down drag out fight over
whether or not to index the linking entries in serials records. As the
serials cataloger of the main library, I was ADAMANTLY opposed to the
idea for several reasons. But my main argument was from a check-in stand
point. When checkers are looking up titles and the links are indexed, they
retrieve multiple entries. If the structure in the OPAC is similar to OCLC,
then each record has to be pulled up to see which record is the current,
active title. It is not only incredibly confusing but also slows down the
workflow. For example, if the title "Business statistics" has changed title
twice, what you would get on the brouse screen would look like this:

1) Business statistics
2) Business statistics
3) Business statistics

It is not at all evident which title has the active check-in record attached.
So, we made a compromise. Since the other side would absolutely not back
down on their insistence on indexing the links, I insisted that the 245
had to appear on the browse screen and not the actual search strategy.

So that if the search was "Business statistics", you would get the following:

1) Business review statistics
2) Business statistics
3) Economic statistics
4) Business statistics

So the searcher could tell which titles had "Business statistics" in the
245 (2 and 4), and which were linking entries (1 and 3). This has somewhat
solved the problems encountered with indexing the links but I still encounter
frustrating searches every now and then.

Aimee Algier-Baxter
Serials Cataloger
Santa Clara University