[DCRM-L] Fwd: [RBMS] clarification on author search in SCF

[Noble, Richard]

The treatment of compilers is understandable to catalogers, but just in
case other beings are attracted to SCF3, would it be possible to include a
brief note in the "Search Citation Forms"? I'm not quite sure where to put
it. Perhaps something along the lines of

All fields are keyword indexed. (Note that some compilers are not indexed
as authors, but can be searched as keywords.)

Search terms are automatically truncated. ...

On the other hand, perhaps Marcia's email message, pretty much as it
stands, could be added as a footnote in the same page space. It might be
thought more appropriate for the the section on "Bibliographic Entry", but
I do think it would serve its purpose better if foregrounded at the point
of use, given that the database is a very handy tool for discovering, for
example, what a bookseller means by "Krivatsy".

RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY
BROWN UNIVERSITY  ::  PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912  ::  401-863-1187
<Richard_Noble at Br <RICHARD_NOBLE at BROWN.EDU>own.edu>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Marcia Barrett <barrett at ucsc.edu>
Date: Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 7:07 PM
Subject: [RBMS] clarification on author search in SCF
To: rbms at lists.ala.org


Bibliographic information in the 3rd edition of Standard Citation Forms for
Rare Materials Cataloging is based on the catalog record from which the
information was taken.  If a compiler appeared only in a note in the
catalog record, the name will not be indexed in the author field in the
database.   Compilers will be keyword searchable in such cases.

-- 
Marcia Barrett
Head, Technical Services
University Library
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
barrett at ucsc.edu
831-459-5166
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