Title fields on duedate slips

["Ericsson, Paul" <PEricsson at onconcord dot com>]

Folks --

This one just came up, or maybe we asked the question once before but blocked out the answer. So please excuse if this is a duplicate:

Our due date slips are printing the uniform title (MARC 240) instead of the title proper (MARC 245) if there is a 240 tag in the record. It does not happen often, but there are some instances where this causes big-time headaches. The example that brought this up recently is the book by:  Jannings, Linda  where the title proper (245) is "The best Christmas present of all" and the uniform title (240) is "Come back Buster"  So, the duedate slip prints with "Come back Buster" and clearly the patron is going to think the wrong item was checked out to them.

When we checked with III, we got the answer: "Due slips are designed to use the first title field discovered in the bibliographic record, which could be any of a number of possibilities (130, 240, 245...).  Both of these are hard-coded, and, unfortunately, are not customizable at this time. This would be an enhancement request.  To make 
an enhancement request, you would want to .... "

I have to think that other libraries have wrestled with this issue already. What are you doing? We surely do not want to delete the 240 fields from the records - they provide great searching capabilities. Is there any other workaround that will allow libraries to keep the uniform title and still have the title proper print on the duedate slip?

Thanks for your guidance, and Happy Holidays

Paul
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	Paul Ericsson
	Adult Services Supervisor / Automation Coordinator
	Concord Public Library    http://www.onconcord.com
	45 Green St.     Concord, NH 03301     603 230-3697
	pericsson at onconcord dot com
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