Can Nightly Autoselect Consider Series Info from MARC 440 Field?

Hi,

Can nightly autoselect consider series info from MARC 440 field before assigning requests for Author or Subject likes?

Catherine and I have been discussing those pesky author and subject requests that snag books prematurely from a series. Since there are so many books being added to KLAS, it is increasingly difficult to mark up series and subjects (namely No Nightly Autoselect) to prevent these requests from getting assigned. And seeing as the NLS's bibliographic control section has been pretty consistent in adding series info in to the 440 field, could Nightly be enhanced so it checks a subject or author selection against its 440 field?

For example, let's pick on Janet Daily's Calder country (DB123265). I haven't gotten to this book yet, so the the Series and SerSeq fields are both blank. It has a handful of subjects but only as a result of subject mapping. Even though this title is #4 in a series Nightly could assign author-like requests for Janet Daily. And since it has Romance, Westerns, and Historical Fiction subjects added to it, anyone liking those big subjects could also be getting assigned requests. This book is Active; it has an eDoc. It's ready to party!

Meanwhile, on the MARC tab (in the Catalogue module) I see its 440 field reads:

=440  \0$aCalder Brand.$v04

The place to emphasize is what's at the end: "$v04"

Can Nightly grab a patron or subject request, but then say "Hold on. Is there 440 field? If so, is the number after "$v" equal to "01"? If yes, assign request. If no, cancel this request."?

I know (#0.5) prequels will slip through the cracks. And I know not all series books have numbering. Sometimes it's just the series name. What I don't know is if the 440 fields are employed on NEW MARC records or only Full MARC records. I'm even less certain on Network MARC records. I also do not know what will happen when one book has two 440 fields employed. I see that quite often.

Anyone have thoughts on my hypothesis? Has anyone else wondered about the 440 field? Keystone staff, is this even feasible to scrutinize author/subject requests like this?

Thanks for hearing me out.
-Dan in Minnesota

Hi Dan, your posts always rock! I was thinking that in the meantime, you could do a merge query and then, apply two subject headings to prevent books going out before you were able to apply cataloging. Katharina and Mitake helped me with some queries to apply the sequel heading when new records came in.

You first do one for ALL the series, query A and then, do a query for those that have the heading, query B. Then Merge Queries: In A not B. While you have it open, you can add the SEQ heading, and the NAS subject heading so they don't get picked up in autoselect.

Catalog Query A:
Advanced Search:

• Bib Rec> Series Sequence> Is Between > 1.1 and 9999999999999999
• BibRec >KLAS ID> In> db*,br*

Query B:
Advanced Search:

• Heading> Type> Begins> sub
• Heading> Code>Begins>seq
• BibRec> KLASID > In >db*,br*

Hope this helps!
Maureen

Well worth the cost, if you can swing it! (Do I get some kind of discount for referrals, or not since it happened in reverse? LOL.)

(Sorry for my delay in returning to this thread.)

I'm wary of adopting NLS's series info as I find it very inaccurate. For example, when a series gets a new name they sometimes don't go back and rename books earlier in the series, or one book in a series will start with "The" but the ensuing books will not include "The" creating what I call a series island. They're also known for incorrectly numbering books within a series. When errant series cataloging is encountered, does Katharina deviate and name or number things differently?

Also, do you create different series for books written in different languages? If for example, a patron subscribes to the Harry Potter series could he/she theoretically get Book #1 in English, #2 in Spanish and #3 in another language? I don't think the NLS creates separate series based on language.

Thanks Katharina and Nancy. I appreciate your replies and the examples provided.

In case anyone else is visiting this thread and wondering about the costs for Keystone's cataloging services, Nancy reminded me of this article that Katy wrote back in June 2023: Let's Talk about Cataloging . For pricing, scroll all the way to the end of the article.