Re: Title mergers

[Claudia Chester <cchester@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:25 AM 1/18/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>Amie,
>
>Our catalog label for the 785 field with a second indicator of 6 is -
>Split into.  This will appear in front of both titles and shouldn't be
>confusing.
>
>However, 785 with a second indicator of 7 is problematic.  Our catalog
>label displays as Merged with, which is correct for the first title but
>not for the second one.  I've copied below some text from our Procedures
>Manual, which shows the bib record label for the different indicators in
>the 780 and 785 fields, and the OCLC equivalent.  We are, unfortunately,
>limited by the number of characters allowed by the labels (12, I believe).
> 
>Virginia
>

Virginia - I know what you mean. For lack of a better option, we settled on
the extremely generic 'RELATED.' Not very descriptive, but not innacurate.
(Most of our patrons, and, in fact, our reference librarians, could care
less as long as they find what they're looking for):-)


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