Prices Displayed to Public in ISBN Field
Katie Bower brought to my attention the title "Changes in the land : Indians, colonists, and the ecology of New England" (Voyager bib no. 280115, RLIN ID CTYG83-B26986), containing two 020 fields each with price of book recorded in subfield $c. I deleted the prices and exported the record, but I wanted to make a note of it here in case it comes up again.
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DO NOT EDIT; DO NOT EXPORT
There have been occasional requests to update headings on e-resource records with the 946 field DO NOT EDIT; DO NOT EXPORT.
For background on the 946 field, see Youn Noh's memo:
http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/Orbis2Manual/mem946edit.htm
Basically, even if this type of 946 field is in the record, it's safe to fix any typos as long as the record isn't from ebrary or Serials Solutions. You can fix an ebrary or Serial Solutions record, but these are considered to be "dynamic vendor records" and are subject to periodic computer updates that will wipe out any local changes.
For records other than ebrary or Serials Solutions, the update will probably be stable. Under current processing guidelines, stable vendor records with 946 will have the note DO NOT EXPORT TO OCLC/RLIN. (The business about no editing will not be in the note.) But older records have the one size fits all note that includes the No editing part, even though it does not really apply to these types of records.
For either type of record, don't export to the utilities after updating.
--Steven Arakawa
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Adding complex 866 data
On Sept. 11, 2006, Victoria wrote: "MFHD 5821173 has no 866 line. We want to withdraw vol. 95:2, but can't do it completely because there is no 866." I told her I would try to take care of this, but I wonder if this is the sort of thing that should be handled better through catalog management.
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Suppressed cover record vs. "phantom"
Could someone take a look at the following exchange and just confirm that I gave Victoria the correct information? Should the item record note be deleted (or at least modified?) Thanks. / Daniel
(Incidentally, the Bib record number she provided is incorrect. But the barcode number works though.)
Vicky Gardner wrote:
> One of my staff members from the past worked on this record (Bib
> 4003010, b/c39002031944185). He discharged it, though it was charged
> to Binding/SML. He called it a phantom record in the item note,
> though I am not sure it really is. The Bib record says it is
> Suppressed. There is no call number. Can you fix this to today's
> standards and let me know what you've done in case I find one in the
> future?
I responded:
"This looks like a suppressed cover record for a series that's been fully analyzed and classed separately. I believe it is correct for it to be suppressed (because the public can retrieve all volumes through 4xx/8xx fields) and not classified (given the fact that its constituent volumes are classed separately).So I'm not sure anything really needs to be done. I'll check with my colleagues, though, and let you know if I'm missing something."
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Record promises full text but delivers only abstracts
Question from RSC today ca. 3:30pm:
"Orbis says that the journal
Economic and Industrial Democracy is available in full text from 11/2001 to one year ago. However, I couldn't find any FT at all."
I responded that I would look into it, and then I tried to replicate the problem as follows:
I retrieved the
record, and noted that hyperlinked note in the public record says: "Available Online: Full text from 11/01/2001 to 1 year ago (ABI/INFORM Global)". When I click on the link I get a
ProQuest-supplied index of journal issues. When I click on the latest issue, "May 1, 2006", I get a
table of contents for that issue, with article titles hyperlinked. If I click on a specific title, say "
From Welfare to Profit", I get an abstract. That's the end of the road. No full text.
There's a Yale Links button available at the article level, so I tried it and received the message: "Yale Links could not find full text. Try the options below to do a comprehensive search for this item." I tried searching the list of electronic journals, but no luck there either.
So ... it looks like record should be revised to indicate that the Yale Library provides online abstracts, but not full text. Alternatively, maybe we really do have the full text, but I it isn't easy to find (by SFX or by me).
I can't update the record myself, since the 946 field says "DO NOT EDIT; DO NOT EXPORT"
I've sent a note to Matthew and Youn to see if there's anything they can do.
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Orbis search box added
I've added an Orbis search box to the right-hand panel. I figure this might be convenient for checking WebVoyage as we're thinking through catalog problems.
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image testing
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Posting comments
I've added a comment to my first posting, where I mention the fact that I've added some links to the sidebar. To read the comment, just click "comments" at bottom of entry.
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Creating new posts
It just occurs to me that you may need to be a member of
blogger.com before you can post messages to this blog. I'd be happy to show people how to do this. One you're signed up, there's a wonderful plug-in available in Firefox where you can visit a Web page, decide you want it saved to the blog, right click the mouse, select "blog it now", and have the URL immediately embedded in a new posting.
Incidentally, if you select the "Compose" tab for the posting editor, you don't have to look at the raw HTML. If you *don't* mind looking at raw HTML, hoever, select the "Edit HTML" tab and you'll notice that there's a tag already there called "span class full" which allows you to post a brief message in the normal blog view, with the option at the click a button to give viewers a longer post. Eseentially it's like the brief versus full view in Orbis. You can test how this works in the current posting. Just click the "read more!" link below and you'll see an additional paragraph added to the bottom .
The only drawback to this feature (which I can disable if people like) is that it prompts the viewer, at the bottom of every posting, to click "read more!", even if there's actually nothing more to read.And here you can see that I've provided additional text. This can be a handy way of getting large blocks of text out of the initial blog view, only to be retrieved if you really need to dig deeply into the history of the problem.
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New blog: Cataloging Problems ("Cataloging Opportunities"?)
This is a new weblog that we can use to keep track of cataloging problems and the extent to which they've been resolved or require follow-up attention. I can sign up any number of persons who want to be able to post messages to the blog. Postings will be arranged and archived in chronological order, with most recent messages appearing at the top. Name and email address of author will appear at bottom of each posting.
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