Re: uniform titles

[Claudia Chester <cchester@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I think it really depends on your collection and your users. We don't have
any music and very little foreign language material, so, after trying the
uniform titles in the 't' field as III suggested, we ended up putting them
in the 'u' field along with most of the other alternate title MARC fields.
Our reference librarians as well as our users were confused by uniform
titles in the browse display. We also had some of the problems mentioned by
others regarding circular references from the authority records, so we
suppressed all our title authorities. When the issue arises, we unsuppress
any that seem more useful than confusing. This works for us because our
catalogers still have access to this authority information when they need it.

We don't have any 'm' field group tag either. I wonder if this was a
locally defined tag and the 'm' was a mnemonic for 'music?' Just a wild
guess...

Good luck.

At 04:08 PM 7/11/2001 -0700, Candace Lebel wrote:
>Hi group,
>
>We currently keep our MARC 130/240 uniform title stuff in an M field
>group tag.  Because this stuff is in an M tag and not a T tag it is not
>showing up in a title browse display when one searches for a particular
>composer.  We are about to change the Innopac tag associated from an M
>to a T but I'm really concerned about the ramifications that we might
>not be forseeing.  We became an Innovative library 11 years ago and
>there must have been a reason for associating these with field group M.
>We no longer know what that reason was.  Anyone want to hazard a guess?
>
>Anyone keep 130/240 as T tagged and not use the wwwoption to make 245
>T's the dominant T tagged field for display so the 240 T's show instead
>if they are present?  I'd like to look at your catalog as an indicator
>of how our catalog would look and behave.
>
>I've already consulted III but I want to tap the collective wisdom of
>this group.
>
>Thanks.
>Candace
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John F. Kennedy University
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