Please, let me inform you that also the Norwegian library system BIBSYS is
MARC-based with linked records.
You find it here (English interface):
http://wgate.bibsys.no/search/gen?lang=E
Here you may search for:
Author: Shakespeare, W?
Title: Shakespeare's comedies
This gives you a list of 6.
Take a look at no. 6 (Mr. William Shakespeare's comedies...1883)
to see how multivolume records and the parts
are displayed.
Anne Munkebyaune
BIBSYS
Norway
Bernhard Eversberg wrote:
> Hugh Taylor wrote:
>
> > ... This is complex stuff. Indeed, so
> > complex that I'd question whether, with the exception of the printed
> > British National Bibliography (and the card service that was at one time
> > derived from BNB data), it's ever been properly implemented by automated
> > systems. Examples, anyone?
> >
> All German academic libraries have systems with hierarchic records
> implemented. All German exchange data have linked records for
> multipart items. We've always thought this a necessity and have built
> it into systems early on. So now, we are very dismayed the MARC exchange
> world still avoids record linking and sticks to antiquated 505s. (There ARE
> good examples of record linking in local MARC systems, however.)
>
> Beside the example cited this morning, you may go to
>
> http://www.gbv.de/cgi-bin/wwwobn2psi?DB=2.1&LNG=EN
> (English interface!)
>
> a German union catalog.
> To go directly to a multipart record and see all the subordinate
> records, use this: (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
>
> http://gso.gbv.de/SET=1/TTL=1/CMD?ACT=SRCH&IKT=12&SRT=RLV&TRM=037277219&LNG=EN
>
> Then click on "Similar" (rather a bad description for "related records"!)
>
> > And it's not just second-level either. Could be third, or fourth, or...
> >
> Right. We know that and we have that. If you want to know more please just ask.
>
> > Nor should we ignore UNIMARC, from which there are probably things that
> > both UK and US communities could usefully learn.
> >
> Nothing, to my knowledge, that MARC21 could not do using the
> 77x and 78x fields properly.
>
> > So, yes, whilst the absence of a legitimate ISBD/AACR method of describing
> > multilevel publications from MARC 21 is a significant lacuna, we must be
> > clear from the outset that its incorporation into MARC 21 would be a
> > complex business (you thought "integrating resources" was tricky ...??).
> > --
>
> MARC21 *as it is* does have all the required features, as elaborated in
> our papers. The MARC people can lean back comfortably, the problems
> rest with the implementors of actual systems. All most of them have
> ever done is implementing the contents note option of AACR2 and the
> use of 7xx fields for added entries. And then they index these fields,
> with all the difficulties that have been mentioned.
>
> As things are in the MARC world, I'm afraid nobody will do much as
> long as LC does not implement linked records.
>
> Regards, B.E.
>
> Bernhard Eversberg
> Universitaetsbibliothek, Postf. 3329,
> D-38023 Braunschweig, Germany
> Tel. +49 531 391-5026 , -5011 , FAX -5836
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