Holdings class done – thank you everyone!
I would like to thank everyone who came to the Holdings refresher class/workshop/seminar … whatever! I enjoyed meeting several folks who I did not know as well as seeing familiar faces.
Now, I need to retract one thing I said in the first class, and add some information I learned after the second one.
First of all, the 853 for a monograph should be:
853 00 8 1 $$a v. (or pt. or t. or ed. etc….)
There was some confusion (on my part at least), so I checked this out with Doug Smith.
Secondly, Beth Zavorski brought up something in the second session and did some great research on our displays in the Endeca OPAC (Mango).
Whenever you have a gap in the middle of one part, you *should* not need to record the larger part more than once. An example of this would be a monthly magazine where we are only missing the April issue if the first year.
Below is the way I explained it in class on the left and the way you should be able to do it on the right.
853 20 8 1 a (year) b (month) 853 20 8 1 a (year) b (month)
863 40 8 1.10 a 2009-2009 b 01-03 863 40 8 1.10 a 2009 b 01-03
863 40 8 1.20 a 2009-2009 b 05-12 863 40 8 1.20 a 2009 b 05-12
Well, it turns out you can do it the way it is supposed to be done (the right) because the display is actually quite easy to read. The way the two displays show up are:
2009:Jan.-2009:Mar. 2009:Jan.-Mar.
2009:May-2009:Dec. 2009:May-Dec.
The way it is done on the right is actually the standard – we were just doing it the other way to correct display issues at one point. The nice thing is that there is no need to go back and change any old records, but the record done according to the standard does work fine.
Thank you Beth!!
Now that the HOL class is history, I hope to get onto another subject soon … I’m tired of this one!!
