[316] in ad-lib
Re: Corporate names/subtitles in Advance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ellen Finnie Duranceau)
Tue Apr 11 17:12:42 1995
To: cfollett@MIT.EDU
Cc: acq2@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Apr 1995 15:13:05 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 17:12:18 EDT
From: Ellen Finnie Duranceau <efinnie@MIT.EDU>
Charlene, I don't have my notes handy, but my memory
is that the key issue with the prompts has to do with
authority hot keys. If we don't have the prompts for corporate
or conference (which we don't now have) names, there is a good
chance that the person keying in the order will end up
putting the wrong tag with the name heading when it is pulled
from the authority file. HOWEVER, I think we also said
at the meeting with Matt that if in terms of VOLUME, we have few
conference and/or corp. names, it might be worth accepting a certain
amount of error. From the serials side, I think we have enough
corp/conf. names that we'd want to keep the prompts, but if
we add in the mono volume, my impression is that keeping the
prompts makes much less sense.
I guess the bottom line is what percentage of all orders have
a corp/conf. name. And the other bottom line is how tricky it is
to get a corp/conf. name correct, with the correct tag from the
auth. file , with out the prompt. Can we try that out?
Is it easy to go back and forth between prompts and no prompts? Or
is this sort of set in stone?
Sorry to be so long-winded--I'm thinking out loud.Ellen
|> Currently the Acq. order screen prompts us for author and then
|> corporate author. We don't really use corporate author much in Mono
|> Acq.and would like to ask Grant to remove, but wanted to know if Serials nee
*ds it.
|> Also, I would like to ask Grant to add prompt for subtitle (I asked
|> for this during Goldner's last visit and I think the two got mixed up),
|> unless BAS reps think we should continue running the title and
|> subtitle as we currently do. (and where does this leave the editor
|> information which currenly gets attached to end of title also?)
|> Any thoughts on this or should we discuss at Thursdays meeting?
|> Charlene
