I like Marty's idea. It follows a clear pattern and would be useful. I
don't know if we'd be overloaded with references or not, however I do like
the idea of providing more references when they're helpful. This seems
like such a situation. It's not just helpful for derived searching, but
browsing as well.
Daniel
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> Locating geographic names can be problematic if there are more than one
> place with the same name in a state, country, etc. For example, there are
> established headings for Weimar (Hesse, Germany) and Weimar (Thuringia,
> Germany). It seems to me that it would be useful to create routine
> references in this situation: e.g.,
> 451 0 Weimar (Germany : Hesse)
> 451 0 Weimar (Germany : Thuringia)
> For systems that allow derived key searches for geographic names, these
> would be useful references. The famous Weimar is the one in Thuringia,
> but is the catalog user going to know that? What do you all think?
> Should I propose to LC that this type of ref be routinely made?
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