[879] in ad-lib
{LONG}We found a weasel.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suzanne T. Weiner)
Tue Jun 20 15:38:30 1995
To: gyoung@MIT.EDU
Cc: opac-lib@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 15:38:05 EDT
From: "Suzanne T. Weiner" <stweiner@MIT.EDU>
Grant, this seems to be too large of a problem for us to call a
bug...
Here goes:
I did a search in the following way :
Sew= materials research society and NW= 200
To my delight one title came up and it was the correct one, ie volume
200 of the MRS symposium series. BUT the Humanities library was
listed as owning the book. The lcn # for this record is 10493019.
Here it is:
Number of holdings :1
TITLE :Ferroelectric thin films : symposium held April16-20, 1990,
San Francisco, California, U.S.A. /
PUBLISHED :Pittsburgh, Pa. : Materials Research Society, c1990.
PHYSICAL DESC :xi, 340 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
SERIES :Materials Research Society symposia proceedings; v.200
LIBRARY COLLECTION / CALL NUMBER STATUS /DUE DATE
---------- ----------------------------------------------------
1. HUMANITIES UNCAT / TA418.9.T45.F47 1990 In Library
--------------------------------------------------------------------
I repeated the search using another volume number and the result was
the same...the correct volume came up but again Humanities was the
location.
We then began looking at titles which we knew were science library
titles and unfortunately the results were not good. Some titles were
listed correctly as being in Science but most had a listing of Humanities
For example CASSI has both Hum and Science as the holding Library and
this is correct.
ALL of the Series of Lecture Notes in MAthematics (our favorite)
that we were able to look at were listed as being Humanities.
Grant, Per your request here are some LCN for records which are
incorrect:
10000672 10002896
10000673 10002898
10000674 10579200
10000675 10019439
10000727 10288048
10000728
10000729
10000798
10000799
10000801
10000805
10000858
10000869
10001153
10001300
10001365
10001802
10001923
10002208
Look at the following section of the MARC record for the item with
LCN 10288048:
Local Control # : 10288048 Transaction type : GEAC MRMS CONVERSION
Last updated : 23 JAN 1987 Leader : nas Y2
Format type : Serials
260 00 a Chur ;
a New York, N.Y. :
b Harwood Academic Publishers,
c c1984-
300 BB a v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
650 B0 a Polymers and polymerization
x Collected works.
866 B0 1 MIT
l HUMANITIES
m UNCAT
3
d QD380.P654
d QD380.P654
j 1st ed., 1984-4th ed., 1987; 7th ed., 1991-
z Latest on Ref
910 BB a S04533erk870123tn
930 BB 1 MIT
l HUMANITIES
m UNCAT
3
d QD380.P654
j 1st ed., 1984-4th ed., 1987; 7th ed., 1991-
i Latest on Ref
The 866 and 930 field say Humanities. I checked on Old Barton and the
930 field has S*BKS. Hum is not mentioned. (This is the
Polymer YEarbook, a Science held book)
Grant, some examples of LCN's where the holding library of Science
seems to be correct : 10042534 and 10297658.
Also do you need more examples?
Opac people Check this out for your libraries...we also looked at
BArker and all of those we looked at came up okay.
What about the branches?
Suzanne
-------------------------
Suzanne T. Weiner
77 Massachusetts Ave. (617)253-9367
10-500
Cambridge, Ma 02139 e-mail: stweiner@mit.edu
