Re: GEN: Redundant subject headings

[Jeff Ahrens <jahrens@FLR.FOLLETT.COM>]

Actually, your software should be able to eliminate, automatically, the
subject headings you don't want.  I'd talk to your software vendor about how
to this.

Also, the "Sears" should not appear with a subject in the OPAC-- that's
something else that the software is doing.

The OPAC should be able to determine which headings will be displayed and
which will be repressed by reading the second indicator in a 6XX field.

Good luck!

Jeff Ahrens, MLS
Cataloger
Follett Library Resources
1340 Ridgeview Drive
McHenry, IL 60050
(815) 759-1700, ext. 387
http://www.follett.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lawrence Newton"
>         I get records with things like "CATS--FICTION",
> "CATS--FICTION--SEARS" and "CATS--FICTION--JUVENILE
> LITERATURE" all in the same record.  For one thing, my
> young patrons, not being indoctrinated into the
> minutiae of cataloging lore, wonder what a department
> store has to do with a cat story.  I think it is
> confusing, getting three "hits", all for the same
> book.

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