RE: Initial Articles - non filing

["Johan Mijs" <johan dot mijs at vcob dot be>]

Hi,

we have the same problems with the lack of a non-filing indicator in the
700 analytical entry.  This is of course due to MARC21, but most systems
offer a workaround (e.g. if you put the intial article in subfield $t
between square brackets, the title is indexed with and without the
intial article etc.).

e.g. How do you catalog: 700$aRush, Jennifer$tThe power of love?
If you turn on the stop word list (a, an, the) in the Millennium OPAC, a
user will never find 'the power of love' nor 'power of love' in the
title index.

We've seen American catalogs omit the initial articles from the 700
analytical entry; we think this is very offensive to the title ... 

Does anyone have any other solutions (or does Millennium have a
workaround?).

thx,

Johan (VCOB - Belgium)

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-----Original Message-----
From: John Crane [mailto:jcrane at riversideca dot gov] 
Sent: woensdag 8 september 2004 19:47
To: innopac at innopacusers dot org
Subject: Re: Initial Articles

Maurine, does  the article like  "the" show up in the 246 field or  in
the $t field of a 700 field. or basically where there is no filing
indicator or all articles eliminated from the beginning of the
"user-typed search?"

>>> Maurine dot McCourry at hillsdale dot edu 09/08/04 08:13AM >>>
This seems like something that would have been discussed here before,
but I couldn't find it in the list archives:  We'd like to expand our
list of "Characters removed from beginning of user-typed search". 
Currently, our list is "a ,an ,the ;".  We'd like to at least add
Spanish, French, German, and Italian initial articles, and might want to
add others as our collection becomes larger.  Just wondered if anyone
had a more extensive list already prepared that they'd be willing to
share.  Or if anyone has any warnings about doing this.

Thanks!

Maurine McCourry
Technical Services Librarian
Hillsdale College
maurine dot mccourry at hillsdale dot edu 

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