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Re: Qualifiers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patricia Flanagan)
Fri Jun 9 13:14:02 1995
To: opac-lib@MIT.EDU
Cc: mmmiller@MIT.EDU, lippertm@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Jun 1995 10:59:49 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 09 Jun 1995 13:13:29 EDT
From: Patricia Flanagan <patf@MIT.EDU>
Hi,
I think thesis was not included on the June 8 list because it's *already*
a qualifier so no one suggested its addition to the list. At Rotch we
went for "maproom," but considered map, too, so having both would be
fine.
Pat
|>Maybe we still haven't had enough coffee:
|>In Nina's June 2 e-mail, a set of collections qualifiers as well as a
|>set of call prefixes was listed. Some overlap between these lists
|>occurs in Nina's June 8 list of about a dozen proposed qualifiers.
|>
|>Does this mean that anything not in the June 8 list will be
|>eliminated? We suggest Map and Thesis for the list. We've all talked
|>a lot about the thesis qualifier, of course, so we were surprised not
|>to see it in the June 8 list, but maybe we're missing something.
|>Although map can be searched as a format, we think it might be useful
|>to have it as a qualifier to limit the total set size. It was slow
|>today for us when we did a sample search on Africa as a keyword and
|>map as limit.
|>
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|>Margo M. Miller AND MARGRET LIPPERT
|>Room 14S-134 MIT Engineering and Science Libraries 617-253-6755
