<div dir="ltr">Good news--thanks for the update!</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 3:17 PM Erin Blake <<a href="mailto:erin.blake.folger@gmail.com">erin.blake.folger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Here's an update on a problem discussed on DCRM-L back in November 2016, with many thanks to Francis Lapka for re-surfacing the issue with Jay Weitz of OCLC (now that a connection has been made thanks to the Bib Standards Committee's role in creating "OCLC Member Merge" instructions for rare materials). Francis, Jay, and I have discussed it back and forth by email, and it has now been moved along to the people in charge of search indexes and Connexion Client development.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Background:</b> DCRM-L catalogers had assumed that selecting "Not Internet" when searching for copy in Connexion would remove MARC records for digital reproductions from the search results. But it turns out that limit <i>also </i>filters out MARC records for original materials when the record contains an 856 link to a <i>version </i>of the resource represented by the bibliographic record. I reported this as a bug, but never heard anything back about a fix. </div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Short version:</b> this isn't a bug, it's a 'feature' but there <i>is </i>hope for a solution.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Why this isn't a bug:</b> The search indexes and limits inside the "Keyword/Numeric Search" frame in Connexion are shared by Connexion and WorldCat. Only the "Apply Language of Cataloging Limiter" (outside and below that frame) is specific to Connexion. This means picking "Internet" in the "Internet" drop-down means "I want to find things I can see online" not "show me resources that I can <i>only </i>find online." As a result, selecting "Not Internet" filters out MARC records for original materials that include an 852 with 2nd indicator "1" (link to a <i>version </i>of the resource being described, as opposed to link to the resource described in the record). Even though the MARC record isn't for an electronic resource, it can still be used to access an electronic resource.<b><br></b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Work-around:</b> Use the "Command Line Search" at the top of the screen and throw in "
not mt:elc" to exclude records for electronic resources (even with "Show more indexes" enabled in the upper right of the Keyword/Numeric Search box, not all indexes are available, so it can only be done in the command line. See <a href="https://www.oclc.org/content/dam/support/worldcat/documentation/searching/refcard/searchworldcatquickreference.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.oclc.org/content/dam/support/worldcat/documentation/searching/refcard/searchworldcatquickreference.pdf</a> for full details, and a walk down memory lane if your library experience goes back to the days when we had to type in a super-complicated command line search in order to get only the results we wanted, since GUIs didn't exist, and we were charged per-search rather than a flat fee). </div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Hope for a solution: </b>As those of you who attended the June 17th OCLC Cataloging Community virtual session know, instead of moving forward with replacing Connexion Client with Connexion Browser, "OCLC is in the process of investing more into the Connexion client, making it even more useful for future cataloging" [at that moment, the Chat window of the online meeting instantly filled with a chorus of "Hooray!", "Yippee!", "Yay!", etc.]. OCLC also said that the non-functional "Display using GLIMIR clustering" check-box would go away in the next release of Connexion. There is some hope that, for example, the real-estate currently taken up by the GLIMIR checkbox could instead be used for a checkbox along the lines of "Only display records where Fixed Field Form = blank" (that is, the record describes "None of the following: microform, large print, braille, online, direct electronic, regular print reproduction (e.g., a photocopy)"). </div><div><br></div><div>Hope this description makes sense.... and keep your fingers crossed. </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Erin.</div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><a name="m_-6982175615801901101_SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">______________________<br></span></a><a name="m_-6982175615801901101_SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Erin Blake, Ph.D. | Senior Cataloger | Folger
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