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ISSUE Redux: Series $v Subfields
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (wpowers@MIT.EDU)
Fri Feb 17 16:46:26 1995
From: wpowers@MIT.EDU
To: ad-cat@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 16:46:12 EST
Yo. I looked at NYU's OPAC (telnet bobcat.nyu.edu) They can't
access series numbers either. That's hard cheddar for us!
Here is a statement of the issue; if already in the ISSUES file,
please obliviate:
Series are inaccessible by number because the 4xx and 8xx $v
subfields are not being indexed, presumably because of authority file
considerations. This is a concern to public service librarians, who
are frequently presented with citations like "Lecture notes in
mathematics no. 1081."
One possible solution would be to index 4xx and 8xx $v into the
Note index, so a search W=lecture notes mathematics 1081 (or the finer
search SEW=lecture notes mathematics AND W=1081, or other variants)
would isolate the
desired record. PSU's (and patrons?) would have to be made aware of
this method of access.
This I attest, Walter
