Or, we can just teach our patrons to search by keywords first and that
should work in most cases, without us having to do a lot of maintenance.
Just my $0.02
Mitch Turitz,
90% Serials Librarian, 10% Furloughed
On Aug 26, 2009, at 10:58 PM, Bernhard Eversberg wrote:
> Gaudet, Dodie wrote:
>> Use of the non-filing markers would solve the problem of what to do
>> with initial articles in enhanced 505 fields.
> Not just there, but in every field and subfield. So, finally, all
> titles, wherever they be in the format, could be treated in the same
> way, as they should. MARC would suddenly become significantly
> "cleaner"
> in the eyes of non-librarian developers who insist on clean data
> models.
> Plus, markers can be used not just at the beginning, but anywhere
> inside a field, to exclude stuff from sorting. Presently not possible,
> this makes things so much more convenient.
>
> B.Eversberg
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