Topic 4. Transcription

[Stephen Tabor]

At 02:41 PM 1/21/99 -0800, Patrick Russell wrote:
>4) A "non-prining" 240?  I'm not certain what is meant here, but I believe
>that title variations due to typographic characters are better handled in
>246, 240 being reserved for AACR2 uniform titles. 

In general I believe this too. What I had in mind was something that is
possible in UCLA's old ORION: in a multiple author-title display, entries
are arranged under a given author by the 245 unless overridden by a 240.
The 240 displays to the public or not according to whether the first
indicator is 1 or 0. Thus you have the capability to invoke an invisible
hand to smooth out irregularities in sort order caused by spelling or
wording variants. Local practices and capabilities will vary, but I don't
believe any system will give you the capability of using the 246 to affect
the sort order.


Steve Tabor