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We, too, use III and our catalog does display them separately, and has done so since before I came to UCSD 4-1/2 years ago. We did a major reindexing project last year and kept this functionality. The only "problem" we have experienced is with our outsourced authority control service -- they are unable to match and update names that have relator terms, so our database management department asked us to consider abandoning some terms, but we felt these are too significant.
Arvid Nelsen, UCSD
R. Arvid Nelsen
Coord. of Technical Services/Original Cataloger/Classical Studies Librarian
University of California, San Diego
Mandeville Special Collections Library
9500 Gilman Drive, 0175S
La Jolla, CA 92093-0175
Phone: 858-534-6766
Fax: 858-534-5950
>>> EHOYENSK@LIBRARY.UNT.EDU 12/19/06 09:19AM >>>
We have a similar problem with our catalog (III). I use relator terms
to differentiate binders, printers, publishers, booksellers, donors,
honorees, etc., and our catalog won't display the differences for 700
fields.
Oddly enough, it will show for 710 fields however. Go figure.
We've been told that to have it work for 700 fields it would "mess up"
the indexing, although I've not understood the explanation on that one.
If you get an answer, I'd be interested in knowing.
Edward
Edward Hoyenski
Assistant Curator
Rare Book & Texana Collections
University of North Texas Libraries
ehoyensk@library.unt.edu
940-565-2769
940-565-2599
P.O. Box 305190
Denton, TX 76203
>>> "Warner, Diane" <diane.warner@TTU.EDU> 12/19/2006 10:27:07 AM >>>
Hello,
I'm a special collections cataloger at Texas Tech University. I've
used
relator terms in 700 fields for many books in our collection, but our
system does not index them so that the books by a particular person
(as
entered in a 100 field) fall into a different list than the books with
the 700 field and a subfield e, relator term. By this I mean that the
basic author browse searches both 1xx and 7xx fields, but doesn't
display 7xx with subfields on a different line in the browse return
hit
list. Our problem is perhaps exaggerated because our manuscript/book
collection focuses on contemporary writers, people still publishing
today.
We use Aleph (Ex-Libris), so any suggestions from other users would be
greatly appreciated. This is causing a great problem for our patrons,
but I can't seem to explain it well enough to our systems people to
get
the solution I want. One of their suggestions was to confine the
author
search to 1xx fields.
Is it impossible to have separate listings? How could that be
accomplished in Aleph? Please feel free to reply to me off-list.
Thanks,
Diane Warner
Diane Warner, Ph.D.
Librarian for the James Sowell Family Collection in Literature,
Community and the Natural World
Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
Texas Tech University
806-742-3749
Diane.warner@ttu.edu