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

[Margaret F. Nichols]

Just a note to join the chorus: Yes, this would be very useful. Another example is Darwin's Origin of Species, which came out in many different editions in his lifetime, sometimes several editions in the same year (with the same place and publisher). Searching for a given edition by its Freeman number would enable a person to zero in immediately in the right one.

Best,

Margaret

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Margaret Nichols
Rare Materials Cataloging Coordinator
Cornell University


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This would be a great help to catalogers.

To assist in cataloging it would be helpful to search for Hebrew records containing a citation to Halper or IMHM (among others). It would help us sift the wheat from the chaff, so to speak.

We would support this initiative.

Jackie Parascandola

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This would be very helpful.
It would have to be based on keywords though, I think.

If only for the reason that many older records (or non North American records) will only use keywords, for example "Cioranescu" or "Sabin" or "Palau" before the RBMS put their brilliant standard citation guide online.

Just my two cents,
Allison

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

Hi all.



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.



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.



Would others support such a change in OCLC? If so, can you share sample use cases, for researchers or for staff?



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).



Keen to hear others.



Thanks,

Francis





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>).









Senior Catalogue Librarian

Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts

Yale Center for British Art

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