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<FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Hi Victor,<BR>
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Normally, in the world of Cataloguing, the letter “a” is what we call an “initial article”. Initial Articles are usually ignored when you are searching databases, e.g. Library Catalogues.<BR>
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In my experience, I have found though that Koha will search initial article’s instead of ignoring them, but most z39.50 Server’s stick to the rules of Initial Articles are ignored.<BR>
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Some of the many known Initial Articles for example are:<BR>
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><UL><LI><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>a
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><LI><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>and
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><LI><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>of
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><LI><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>the
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><LI><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>to<BR>
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For example, when you are cataloguing using MARC format, you would indicate that the title starts with an Initial Article utilising your MARC Indicators, that way your ILS will ignore the initial article when creating a list of titles in filing order.<BR>
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Example title: The brief history of Australia : a study guide for students / by Joe Bloggs ; edited by John Who.<BR>
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245 14 $aThe brief history of Australia :$ba study guide for students /$cby Joe Bloggs ; edited by John Who.<BR>
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MARC Tag Details:<BR>
245 = Title Statement<BR>
Indicator 1 = 1 (Added Entry)<BR>
Indicator 2 = 4 (Character count of initial article, in the example title “The” = 3 characters + space = 4 characters)<BR>
Subfield a: Title<BR>
Subfield b: Subtitle<BR>
Subfield c: Statement of Responsibility<BR>
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Therefore, with the example, when it is listed in a Shelf List the ILS sees it as: “brief history of Australia : a study guide for students” instead of “The brief history of Australia : a study guide for students”, but still prints the word “the” in the title on the Shelf List.<BR>
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I hope that answers your question in some form.<BR>
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Kindest Regards,<BR>
Joel<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#0000FF">> From: Vitor Fernandes <<a href="vitorfernandes87@gmail.com">vitorfernandes87@gmail.com</a>><BR>
> Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 10:16:19 +0100<BR>
> To: Koha List <<a href="koha@lists.katipo.co.nz">koha@lists.katipo.co.nz</a>><BR>
> Subject: [Koha] Z39.50 Search<BR>
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> Hi there Koha community,<BR>
> <BR>
> I've one question about Z39.50, which is not directly related with Koha.<BR>
> If I search in Koha for titles with "a" in the Z39.50 search, what is <BR>
> returned?<BR>
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> Records with the word "a" in the title?<BR>
> Records with the letter "a" in the title or words started by "a"?<BR>
> <BR>
> This question it's because I need to do a query to one Z39.50 server<BR>
> that returns me the records with at least one word started with "a".<BR>
> If someone can help me, i would be appreciated.<BR>
> <BR>
> Thanks in advance.<BR>
> Vitor Fernandes<BR>
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