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Can Nightly Autoselect Consider Series Info from MARC 440 Field?
3 days 2 hours ago #1856
by dmalosh
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
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
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