Re: Uniform title displays as title in Webcat

["Felice K. Lowell" <felice.lowell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If no authority work is being performed for items that have U.T. (1XX/240
or 700 with $t), then shame on you!  Tsk. Tsk.

Actually,  Jeff, we are pretty diligent about doing authority work here.  It's done every Friday for attention to those individual headings which conflict with what our OCLC authority work misses.  I run the new headings list for the law library, and the the invalid entries, the blind references, and the duplicates for both the law library and the University library.  It's in this second group that I witness all of the uniform titles which vary from the over-meticulous to the redundant to the downright misleading.  That's why I spoke up in the first place.   Your info (and others) on the difference between the 240 10 and the 240 00 was very helpful, however.  Thank you.  
Sandy Herzinger also refers to the 240 10 and the 240 00 coding alternatives makes the point that her institution uses the headings selectively.
Mark Scharff noticed that the issue at hand was not whether uniform titles were worthwhile, but whether they all belong in everyone's catalog.  (He, too, raises the question of whether authority work is the problem.)

 I cannot speak for everyone and certainly not for music libraries/collections, or art collections, or foreign language collections.   I dislike any treatment of the "American people" - my favorite election campaign phraseology - which fails to take into account the individual - the individual patron, item, collection, institution, circumstance.  While uniformity and conformity and standards have proven their value again and again,  some selectivity/fllexibility in their application is desirable.

Perhaps our real difference in opinion lies not in the problem, but in the solution.

Jeffrey Trimble wrote:

We authorize all headings here at my institution.  We run the
New Headings list weekly and work from it.

The 240 should only index when the first indicator is set to "1".  And
if the first indicator is set to "0" then the U.T. would not index.  (Remember
the old card days-- "1" to print on the card with the square brackets, and "0"
to suppress the printing of the cards).

I think that if all the authority work is performed, then the user will have no
problem finding what they are looking for.  Now, that said, it may be up
to the cataloging staff to add additional 4XX references to the authority
records.

If no authority work is being performed for items that have U.T. (1XX/240
or 700 with $t), then shame on you!  Tsk. Tsk.

Perhaps the indicator issue is something that a site would need to have
III work on.  (Oh yes, re-indexing too, maybe).

Jeffrey A. Trimble
Systems/Catalog Librarian
Youngstown State University
Youngstown, OH
jtrimble@xxxxxxxxxx
(330) 742-2483

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Felice K. Lowell
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Cleveland State University
Cleveland-Marshall Law Library
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