RE: 240 and 245 fields in MARC record

["David Ruml" <David dot Ruml at cityofcarrollton dot com>]

I haven't heard of any issues that arose from our decision to do this.  It definitely fixed the Circ receipt problem.  It has been a few years, but I believe III went into our settings and changed the 240 to register as a u instead of a t.  This was in the field group listing, not the search index settings.  I then had to go in and global update all of our existing 240s to u.

DAVID E. RUML
Bibliographic Database and Systems Admin.
Carrollton Public Library at Hebron & Josey
4220 N. Josey Lane
CARROLLTON, TEXAS  75010

david dot ruml at cityofcarrollton dot com
http://www.cityofcarrollton.com/library


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[mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org]On Behalf Of S. D'Angelico
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 2:24 PM
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Subject: Re: 240 and 245 fields in MARC record


    This sounds like something our library would like to do.  Are there 
any issues that have come up because of this change?  Also, does this 
affect the OPAC display? (When our patrons search by author or title, 
they often don't realize that the uniform title is showing in the browse 
display - and don't go any further.) Did you change the field group tag 
yourself, using Global Update, or did III have to do it?
        Thanks for any input.
            Stephanie

David Ruml wrote:

>The circ receipt gets title info from the first t-coded tag in the bib record.  We had our 240 tags changed to field group u, so that the 245 would show up as the first t field.
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>DAVID E. RUML
>Bibliographic Database and Systems Admin.
>Carrollton Public Library at Hebron & Josey
>4220 N. Josey Lane
>CARROLLTON, TEXAS  75010
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>david dot ruml at cityofcarrollton dot com
>http://www.cityofcarrollton.com/library
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>From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org
>[mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org]On Behalf Of Peggy Sisselman
>Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 1:26 PM
>To: IUG INNOPAC List
>Subject: Re: 240 and 245 fields in MARC record
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>Dear List,
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>Here is a problem we have.  A book was first published in New Zealand under
>the title "Golden deeds".  This title appears in the 240 field.
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>We have the US published book, title is "Strength of the sun."  When you go
>to the shelf this is the title you see.  This title is in the 245 field.
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>A patron brings home her receipt from the library and returns here to say
>she does not have "Golden deeds" but that is what appears on her slip.  If
>someone were to place a hold on this book, we'd be looking for golden deeds
>and never find the book.  We tried to search the database by golden deeds
>and couldn't even find the book.
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>Please can someone tell me how we can do something about this.  Because if
>the object of a library is to help people find things, this is definitely
>not working....
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>Thank you for your help.
>
>Peggy
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>Peggy Sisselman
>Acquisitions/Technical Services
>Poughkeepsie Public Library District
>psisselman at poklib dot org
>845.485.3445 x 3337
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Stephanie D'Angelico,  Reference & System Admin. Librarian
Pennsauken Free Public Library
5605 Crescent Blvd.
Pennsauken, NJ  08110
Phone:	856-665-5959 x.18
Fax:	856-486-0142
Email:	dangelic at camnet dot org
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