[DCRM-L] 510 in connexion

[Jim Kuhn]

Hello:

I had a phone conversation yesterday with OCLC's Chris Grabenstatter. Chris informed me that 510 will be indexed in Scipio and Hand Press Books. She will resubmit a request that 510 be indexed also in WorldCat. Chris confirmed that hearing from more institutions that this would be useful to a) help convince OCLC to do this; and b) assuming they can be convinced, would help convince them to do it sooner rather than later. 

During our call I made additional requests that Folger staff brought up during our Connexion training. First, according to the section "Notes (nt:)" of http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/worldcat/searching/searchworldcatindexes/, 510 is not indexed by a Notes search. Rather than (or in addition to) indexing 510 separately, another option is to add 510 to the "nt" search. Second, I pointed out that it would be very useful if "nt" searched all 5XX fields. And finally, I asked whether "kw" might at some point index all variable fields. 

Apparently the enhancement request queue is not public, and we don't have a number assigned. Avenues for submitting enhancement requests include posting to OCLC-CAT (which OCLC staff monitor); emailing to OCLC Customer Support (support at oclc.org); or emailing Chris directly at grabenst at oclc.org (although she is retiring this fall, she is not averse to getting emails related to enhancement requests).

Hope this helps.

best,
Jim.



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Deborah,
Would you please send the text of the request so that I can know what I am 
asking for (like what index the 510 would be in).  If you could share the 
number is assigned to the enhancement, that would make it easier for us to 
concur.   Best of luck dealing with serials folks.
I hope you are well,
Larry

Quoting "Deborah J. Leslie" <DJLeslie at FOLGER.edu>:

> Update: The Folger has submitted an enhancement request for indexing 
> of field 510. We encourage everyone who has an interest in this to 
> join in the chorus.
> 
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> Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S.
> Head of Cataloging
> Folger Shakespeare Library
> djleslie at folger.edu
> http://www.folger.edu
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> Just to clarify, I mean the ref citation 510 in the bib record.
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