Re: Date in WebOPAC record browse display

[Keven Riggle <keven.riggle@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Meiko -

We reported this to III on February 8th.  What our staff noticed on
browse screens was serials with no date in the 260 field suddenly
obtained a date (on browse screens only) from the immediate preceding
entry.  Serials with a range of dates in the 260 field only list the
ending date.  Per Rebecca Schoonover at III this will be fixed with
Release 2001 Update A which is due out around March 1st.

You can reference our call 585145 if you wish.

Keven


At 05:57 PM 02/26/2002 +0000, you wrote:
> I think there was some discussion
> on this or a related topic on
> this list some time ago but I don't seem to be able to find the
> relevant messages and in any case there may have been changes
> since this problem was last discussed.
>
> In WebOPAC record browse display the date column shows (or
> "should show in Release A" since there are bugs obscuring
> some
> of this at present) the date which is used for sorting by year.
> Telnet OPAC has apparently always sorted on the last date (or
> the last 4 digits) in 260|c and after many complaints from users
> Innovative apparently prgorammed the WebOPAC to do the same.  
> I
> understand that future development is likely to adjust the sort
> by year function to sort on the most recent date.
>
> This is not very helpful for those serials records which have
> start and end dates in 260|c.  Since I'm not a cataloger I
> don't
> understand the rationale of holding this information in 008, 260
> and 362 :-), but the presence of the end date in 260|c for non-
> current serials means a very confusing browse list.
>
> What do other libraries do?  Do you delete 260|c for serials?
> We've had complaints from reference librarians that the display
> of dates other than our own holdings for serials is misleading
> because patrons assume we have the title from the date that
> appears in the OPAC.  If that date is the last date when any
> title was published it is even more confusing!
>
> Mieko
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Keven Riggle
Systems Librarian
Marquette University Libraries
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