The 526 tag is the place to put contents notes. You can manipulate the indicator
in front of the 526 tag to indicate whether you are listing the full contents or
partial contents. I often list partial contents by just picking out the contents
that are important at my school. I think contents notes are a wonderful tool for
faculty and students. The MARC records that I often get from even the most
reliable sources will have something like "insects" as the only topical subject
heading, while the book's table of contents lists the insects by chapter. It only
takes a minute to put in the 526 tag and chapter headings, and, from then on, the
book is much more accessible, as you would want it to be. And you can use that
book that you catalogued more thoroughly as an example to the students on how to go
to broader subject headings.
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Donna Cook, Nacogdoches, Texas :
Teacher Librarian Central High;
District Library Coordinator, Central ISD;
donnacook@lycos.com
936-853-9345 (work)
936-569-2426 (home)
"Books are the holes in the fences of life"--Peg Kehret
--------- Original Message ---------
DATE: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 09:17:44
From: Robert Hiebert <RHiebert@SD6.BC.CA>
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Cc:
>Hello All,
>
>As I watch students (I'm in a high school of 500, grades 8 to 12) search my
>catalogue I see that their expectations have been established by Google:
>when they do a keyword search for 'marijuana' they expect to find every
>book with information about marijuana; of course, that is not what happens;
>they find only the books with the word 'marijuana' entered somewhere in the
>record. I then tell them they need to broaden their search -- "try 'drugs'
>or 'drug abuse'" -- and many more hits appear.
>
>There is no chance I am going to effectively teach even a small minority of
>our students how to 'broaden the search' (my half-time librarian status is
>just one reason), so I'm thinking that my catalogue has to be more
>Google-like. To that end I am considering adding many more keywords to the
>book records. My first thought is to select keywords from the table of
>contents of a book and list them in the 'note' field of the book record.
>
>I would appreciate your opinions about all this, and I would especially
>like to hear from anyone who is already doing this.
>
>Thanks for listening.
>
>Regards,
>Robert
>
>
>
>Robert Hiebert
>Librarian, Golden Secondary School, BC, Canada
>www.gsslibrary.net
>Fax: 250 344 7116
>library@gsslibrary.net
>
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