RE: MARC indexing profile

[Mark Bartlett <Mark.Bartlett@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: MARC indexing profile

Are you settling in Lai?

All is well here. Busy as ever!

Send me your home mail address and phone number.

Mark Bartlett   mark.bartlett@xxxxxxxxxx

Librarian, Head of Technical Services 
Ross-Blakley Law Library 
Arizona State University
P.O. Box 877806, Tempe, AZ 85287-7806    
480.965.4867   Fax: 480.965.4283

-----Original Message-----
From: Lai-Ying Hsiung [mailto:lhsiung@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 10:56 AM
To: innopac@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: MARC indexing profile

I strongly support Beth's stand.  Nowadays storage is cheap and indexing
operations are much faster.  With all the various limiting capabilities,
you can always find different ways to reduce the result sets to a
manageable size.  Also it is always good to separate the tags to as many
different indexes as allowed by the system to provide greater flexibility
for index manipulation.  You may want to consult the Bath Profile before
you fiinalize your indexing decisions.  Try to confirm as much to the Bath
Profile as possible is a good way to go.

Lai-Ying Hsiung
Technical Services
McHenry Library
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, Calif. 95064

831-459-5166

At 12:23 PM 11/16/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Cyrus - I would urge you to have as many MARC fields indexed as
>possible.  We  set up ours several years ago and are now faced
>$thousands in re-indexing fees from innovative to include new tags that
>wern't in use when we started.
>
>Beth Bradley
>Systems Librarian - Canisius College
>
>Cyrus Mury wrote:
> >
> >  Hello everone: We are a Mid-sized public library serving a multi-cultural
> > population and we are in process of going through our MARC indexing profile
> > with III reps. We believe that we are not going to accept the III standard
> > MARC indexing profile but, go ahead with our version of indexing as many as
> > MARC tags we think will be useful for future OPAC displays. However, for
> > those of you who gone through this process, please share your insights with
> > us, how flexible III is in responding to our indexing  requests ? any tips
> > will help. Thank you in advance. Cyrus
> >
> > Cyrus Mury
> > Cataloging Team Leader
> >
> > Technical Services Division
> > Carrollton Public Libraries
> > Carrollton, TX 75006
> > Phone: 972-466-4714
> > Fax: 972-466-4722
> > E-mail: cmury@xxxxxxxxxx
> >
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