[DCRM-L] OCLC Connexion / WorldCat indexing of MARC 510 field

[Erin Blake]

Definitely useful! Our patrons and staff are accustomed to keyword
searching our OPAC's "Bibliographic Citation" field for rare books and for
prints: rare books with many editions and issues (e.g. bibles) have almost
identical author/title/date, but are distinguished by Wing or STC number;
prints with supplied titles (e.g. Wenceslaus Hollar's etchings) are
distinguished by Pennington or New Hollstein number.

If statistical back-up is needed, I could put in a request for
number-of-hits and number-of-reference-responses related to the Folgerpedia
page "Bibliographic Citation field
<https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/Bibliographic_Citation_field>" (which I now
see could do with additional editing... must.... resist.....)

Erin.

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On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 9:21 AM Lapka, Francis <francis.lapka at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Hi all.
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> I had a brief but useful email exchange with Jay Weitz yesterday about the
> MARC 510 field. In its current setup (as confirmed by Jay), OCLC does not
> index the field
> <https://help.oclc.org/Librarian_Toolbox/Searching_WorldCat_Indexes/Fields_and_subfields/5xx_fields>,
> with a niche exception for SCIPIO
> <https://help.oclc.org/Librarian_Toolbox/Searching_WorldCat_Indexes/Indexes/Indexes_A_to_C/Citation_SCIPIO_specific>
> records.
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> It sounds like OCLC would be willing to consider a change. Jay says it
> would be useful to have a collective indication of interest from the RBMS
> community (perhaps endorsed by BSC), illustrated by use cases.
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> Would others support such a change in OCLC? If so, can you share sample
> use cases, for researchers or for staff?
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> I’ll start with my own use case: to facilitate aspects of cataloging
> activity, I’d like to find all records in OCLC that have a 510 citation to
> the J.R. Abbey catalogs <https://rbms.info/scf/?s=abbey+aquatint> and are
> associated with online resources (e.g. HathiTrust).
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> Keen to hear others.
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> Thanks,
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> Francis
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> Ps. This issue has appeared before on DCRM-L
> <https://listserver.lib.byu.edu/pipermail/dcrm-l/2016-September/004890.html>
> (with a variation on *local *indexing here
> <https://listserver.lib.byu.edu/pipermail/dcrm-l/2018-October/thread.html#5556>
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> *Senior Catalogue Librarian*
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> Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts
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> Yale Center for British Art
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> 203-432-9672  ·  francis.lapka at yale.edu
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