Re: Create lists for call #s with multiple |a

[Tony Zbaraschuk <tzbarasc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>Dear Innovators,
>
>I'm looking for a creative Create Lists strategy.  At ignoble moments in
>our departmental history, LC call numbers that suggested multiple
>classifications were allowed to pass into the catalog unedited, thus:
>
>050 00  Z2014.F4|bM385 1997|aPR821

>How can I gather the offending records through Create Lists?  Looking for
>call numbers that have |a doesn't work, because the system reads a hidden
>|a in every call number.

Try a combined search: look for records that have "1|a" OR "2|a" OR ...
"0|a".  Since most LC call numbers end in a number, this should pick
up the ones that have a |a field in them.  (You might have to go
...OR "a|a" ... OR "z|a" in order to pick up books with call numbers
like "Z 1234 C5a|aQD 32", but that's a minor elaboration of the procedure."


Tony Z

Tony Zbaraschuk
Special Collections Librarian & Archivist     E-mail: tzbarasc@xxxxxxxxxx
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