Re: call number searching

["David Jones" <DJones at scu dot edu>]

>>> JMcGranahan at trevecca dot edu 9/14/2004 3:42:32 PM >>>
Call Number: DVD DT 87.45 .N44
<<<

The DVD is being treated as a prefix and is being dropped from the
index. This is because the rest of the call number looks like an LC
number:

099    DVD|aDT|a87.45|a.N44 

You should try a different format for these numbers anyway (what's up
with all those |a subfield tags?). As long as that second part after the
DVD looks like a possible LC call number, the indexer is going to ignore
the DVD. See #101832.

You'd be much better off going with a numbering sequence like your VHS.
They're just shelving locations after all, right?

HTH,
David 







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