Topic 4. Transcription

[Patrick Russell]

Thanks Steve.

I believe you are right about only 240 affecting sort order.  And there
could well be "sort order titles" that really don't need to display, but
are useful in affecting arrangement.  We can look at this a bit more as a
"MARC" issue.  Its difficult sometimes to know when one moves from a
"MARC/dcrb"  issue to a local display/indexing problem!

Patrick  

At 03:30 AM 1/22/99 -0800, Stephen Tabor wrote:
>At 02:41 PM 1/21/99 -0800, Patrick Russell wrote:
>>4) A "non-prining" 240?  I'm not certain what is meant here, but I believe
>>that title variations due to typographic characters are better handled in
>>246, 240 being reserved for AACR2 uniform titles. 
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>In general I believe this too. What I had in mind was something that is
>possible in UCLA's old ORION: in a multiple author-title display, entries
>are arranged under a given author by the 245 unless overridden by a 240.
>The 240 displays to the public or not according to whether the first
>indicator is 1 or 0. Thus you have the capability to invoke an invisible
>hand to smooth out irregularities in sort order caused by spelling or
>wording variants. Local practices and capabilities will vary, but I don't
>believe any system will give you the capability of using the 246 to affect
>the sort order.
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>Steve Tabor
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