RE: Initial articles (was: Initial articles in foreign languages)

["Diane Goodman" <dgoodman at sfpl dot org>]

Can anyone tell me why we should even bother to input correct filing indicators like:

 

245 10  A is for apple

 

if our system completely ignores this to treat "a" as a leading article? (And if you DON'T include "a" in your leading article table, well, you know what happens. You can't have it both ways.)

 

Am I totally naïve to feel that systems should be able to work with MARC filing indicators? 

 

Diane L. Goodman

Catalog Manager

San Francisco Public Library

dgoodman at sfpl dot org

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org [mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Hiles, Roger
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 1:56 PM
To: IUG INNOPAC List
Subject: RE: Intitial articles in foreign languages

 

In "OPAC Options", you can add specific leading articles to skip, but

this causes problems with titles beginning with English words (or place

names) that are the same as foreign language articles (such as "die").

We asked the III Help Desk about this last year, and the response we got

was that this is just the way things work.  

 

Does anyone know of a more workable solution?

 

Roger Hiles

Systems Librarian

Leatherby Libraries, Chapman University

One University Drive

Orange, CA 92866

Email: hiles at chapman dot edu 

 

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