AnALEPHaDay

Remember that F3 = SEARCH IN CURRENT BASE is probably most effective as your first hotkey search on a heading you're trying to verify or add. It gives you a response of all occurrences of your heading and nearby ones. Especially good for subject headings. It does tell you if there's an authority record for the whole string (in the codes to the right) and you can "expand" to see the authority record. While the text-strings are good for repeated text, they do not replace a hotkey and selecting the heading from the heading browse.

When you do a title browse for a numbered series, you may see one cluster with a lot of hits as well as numerous hits with numbering included. "Physica scripta" for example; the authorized form is: Physica scripta (Stockholm, Sweden : 1982). In Aleph, 490 is indexed with $v so you get a line in the browse index for each number. The 8XX $v is not indexed and you get the cluster with all of the hits that are matched by the authority record. There's a "v." that comes with each line so you sometimes see "v. v." if the series uses v. for numbering. Don't worry about it, get over it.

In Geac Advance, we asked that series headings on copy cataloging be searched in BobCat. This was partly to make up for the delayed authority processing and we thought that series could use the extra attention. Now that we have built the Aleph database and it has gone through LTI processing, it is no longer necessary to give series the extra attention. You should check the book and the record and be sure that any series that is on the book is correctly given in the record, and vice versa. If any heading on the bib record -- name, subject, series -- looks strange, you should search the heading by doing a hotkey or a separate authorities search. Regular, weekly LTI processing will be instituted as soon as possible.

LTI will also change 440s to 490/8XX pairs as part of regular processing.