Re: create lists for publication date before 1900

[Tony Zbaraschuk <tzbarasc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 03:44:36PM -0400, David Rodgers wrote:
> The best search key is the date found in the fixed fields of the bib record.
> Choose Bibliographic list and do the following search string.
> 
> choose the special fields key  @  (probably on the far right column)
> choose option for the 008 field  (mine is option 1)
> choose the number that corresponds to date 1
> The search string will then be
> date 1 < 1900
> L would mean less than or equal to, so use the <  less than sign.

While this will pick up everything with date1 correctly set, be aware
that not all records have done this; you may have to do some
considerable manual weeding of the resulting search file.


Tony Z

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