[DCRM-L] Indexing 510 locally

[Erin Blake]

We index the 510 separately in our OPAC. Users can pick the "Bibliographic
citation" field in our "Advanced Search" (see
https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/Searching_in_Hamnet#Advanced_Search_tab). It
gets used a *lot* by our staff and researchers.

Erin.

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Erin Blake, Ph.D.  |  Senior Cataloger  |  Folger Shakespeare Library  |
201 E. Capitol St. SE, Washington, DC, 20003  |  eblake at folger.edu  |
office tel. +1 202-675-0323  |  www.folger.edu

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 8:29 PM Robert Maxwell <robert_maxwell at byu.edu>
wrote:

> We index 510 in our catalog as a separate browse index. I assume it’s also
> indexed in the discovery layer by keyword like everything else (which isn’t
> very satisfactory).
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> If you’d like to see our index, go to the library catalog
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> catalog.lib.byu.edu
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> Choose “other searches” to the left under “catalog searches”
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> Enter a citation in the “search for” box, e.g.
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> Heller, E.R. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 1915-1940
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> Click the “alphabetic search” radio button; then click “Citation” (below
> the search box)
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> The first search result is all the hits gathered together; this is
> followed by the individual records lined up by citation number.
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> We haven’t had any complaints about this being confusing (the index does
> index everything in any 510 field so there’s lots of extraneous stuff in
> it). As a cataloger I find this index extremely useful (for bibliographies
> that I want to try to figure out if we’ve included a 510 in all the
> relevant records). Special collections curators seem to like the index when
> I draw their attention to it but I’m not sure how frequently it’s used.
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> Bob
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> Robert L. Maxwell
> Ancient Languages and Special Collections Librarian
> 6728 Harold B. Lee Library
> Brigham Young University
> Provo, UT 84602
> (801)422-5568 <(801)%20422-5568>
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> *From:* DCRM-L <dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu> *On Behalf Of *Hoover, Sarah
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 16, 2018 1:25 PM
> *To:* dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu
> *Subject:* [DCRM-L] Indexing 510 locally
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> Hello all,
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> Our institution is currently preparing for the release of a new discovery
> layer, and special collections cataloging staff have requested the addition
> of indexing for the 510 field. This topic has been discussed in the past,
> and our technical staff have raised several concerns. Two of their main
> concerns are the haphazard use of the 510 outside of special collections,
> which would lead to misleading results, and the potential confusion for
> inexperienced users who don't understand why these results are coming up in
> their title search and who may be overwhelmed by the number of results this
> indexing could create. They are not convinced that the need for indexing
> instead of simply displaying the 510 outweighs these drawbacks.
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> The staff designing the new discovery layer are asking for use cases to
> support indexing of the 510, and we have theoretical use cases but no
> specific examples of user stories where lack of indexing has been a problem
> to give them. Our research and instruction colleague had not realized the
> citations were not searchable, and did say that it would be beneficial for
> instruction prep research.
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> We were wondering whether there are any other institutions indexing the
> 510 in your local catalog. If so, have you gotten any user feedback about
> this feature? Did you have to advocate for it, and if so what helped make
> it successful? I found past discussions about advocating for 510 indexing
> in OCLC in the listserv archive, but not much discussion of local
> implementation.
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> Thank you for any comments and experience you can share!
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> Sarah
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> Sarah Hoover
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> Special Collections Cataloger
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> Wilson Special Collections Library
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> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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> sehoover at email.unc.edu
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> 919-962-4305 <(919)%20962-4305>
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