Hi, Krishna! The data in the 260 field (or the 264) is transcribed data--it should be transcribed from the item, and may not be the same as the authorized form of the publisher's name in the authority file. For example, a book may have on the title page (made up example): "Oxford at the University Press 2016." This could be transcribed as: 260 _ _ $a Oxford : $b University Press, $c 2016. But the authorized form of the name of this publisher in the authority file in OCLC & the Library of Congress is: 110 2_ Oxford University Press. So the record would have a 710 field with the authorized form of the name for searching, access, etc.: 710 2_ Oxford University Press. The 260 $b and the 710 may be identical, but not necessarily. The transcription becomes important when trying to identify particular editions, printings, etc., especially in special collections, with rare materials, etc. I hope this helps clarify! Cheers, h2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Heather Hernandez Technical Services Librarian San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center 2 Marina Blvd., Bldg. E, 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA 94123-1284 415-561-7032, heather_hernandez@nps.gov http://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/museum-collections.htm "The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail."--Gustaf Lindborg
Hi Koha community and Heather, What is the best practice to use Authority Type for Publisher ? We are facing some challenges(we are using 16.05). Request further inputs from this forum. 1. We want to use Authority type to have a list of all publisher details. Authorized Value would not be good as we have hundreds of publishers. We tried to use existing Authority Type CORPO NAME. For this, we created a few authority records against CORPO NAME authority type and entered the name of the publisher in 110a tag in the authority record. In the biblio framework, against 260 b subfield supposed to be for publisher, we chose Other Option-Thesaurus and chose CORPO NAME. When we try to create a catalog as per this framework and come to 260b - we are able to search the CORPO NAME Authority records and choose the name of a publisher. As soon as we choose, the publisher name appears against 260a!!! We dont know why this happens. The authority type is mapped to 260 b but the selected authority name goes to 260a meant for Place of Publish. Has anyone faced this issue ? What should we do to ensure the selected entry appears against 260b ? 2. Heather Hernandez had suggested(thank you Heather) we use 710 to use the CORPO Name authority for Publisher. In practically every Koha library MARC record I have accessed, the publisher info is in 260b. If this was transcribed data, Heather, wouldnt the 710 contain the publisher data ? I wasnt able to find it in 710 in any of the libraries. And today I came to know that 700, 710 and 711 are mapped to Author for search purposes. On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 11:00 PM Hernandez, Heather < heather_hernandez@nps.gov> wrote:
Hi, Krishna!
The data in the 260 field (or the 264) is transcribed data--it should be transcribed from the item, and may not be the same as the authorized form of the publisher's name in the authority file. For example, a book may have on the title page (made up example):
"Oxford at the University Press 2016."
This could be transcribed as:
260 _ _ $a Oxford : $b University Press, $c 2016.
But the authorized form of the name of this publisher in the authority file in OCLC & the Library of Congress is:
110 2_ Oxford University Press.
So the record would have a 710 field with the authorized form of the name for searching, access, etc.:
710 2_ Oxford University Press.
The 260 $b and the 710 may be identical, but not necessarily. The transcription becomes important when trying to identify particular editions, printings, etc., especially in special collections, with rare materials, etc.
I hope this helps clarify! Cheers, h2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Heather Hernandez Technical Services Librarian San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center 2 Marina Blvd., Bldg. E, 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA 94123-1284 415-561-7032 <(415)%20561-7032>, heather_hernandez@nps.gov http://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/museum-collections.htm
"The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail."--Gustaf Lindborg
-- Regards, Krishna
Hi, Krishna-- I have some ideas about your question number 2, but unfortunately I don't know enough about Koha to address your question number 1--so sorry! About your question number 2: yes, publisher name(s) transcribed from items is properly in either the 260 $b field in pre-RDA records or the 264 $b in RDA records. In my experience, it is uncommon for libraries to want publisher names in an authority controlled field--I have only seen this done in special collections libraries like rare book collections, some museum libraries, and libraries with collections about publishing and book history. So most records will not have an authority controlled field for the publisher name. And, yes, when the publisher name is in an authority controlled field (which should be 710 for a corporate name added entry), it may be mapped to "author" since it would be a "corporate author"--that is, a corporate entity with responsibility for the item's existence. So since this is a very uncommon practice for most libraries, I think this will cause you challenges--you will probably have to add a 710 to every record and then download or create authority records (with 110 fields) for every publisher, if you truly want to have authority-controlled publisher name access. We are a museum library, and we do not have authority-controlled access for publishers' names--for us, the keyword access that Koha provides to every word in the record (including publishers' names transcribed into the 260 or 264 field) is enough for us and works well. Considering all these challenges to providing authority controlled access to publishers' names, is it worth it for your users? Do you have the specialized focus in your library that would make it worthwhile to do the extra work to create or download authority records for the publishers' names, and add a matching 710 field to every record? The "best practice" is often different for each library--what is the best practice for us may not be the best practice for you. I hope this is helpful, and I wish I had better suggestions for you. Best regards, Heather ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Heather Hernandez Technical Services Librarian San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center 2 Marina Blvd., Bldg. E, 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA 94123-1284 415-561-7032, heather_hernandez@nps.gov https://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/research-center.htm "The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail."--Gustaf Lindborg
Thank you for your response. On Sat 4 Mar, 2017, 4:14 AM Hernandez, Heather, <heather_hernandez@nps.gov> wrote:
Hi, Krishna--
I have some ideas about your question number 2, but unfortunately I don't know enough about Koha to address your question number 1--so sorry!
About your question number 2: yes, publisher name(s) transcribed from items is properly in either the 260 $b field in pre-RDA records or the 264 $b in RDA records. In my experience, it is uncommon for libraries to want publisher names in an authority controlled field--I have only seen this done in special collections libraries like rare book collections, some museum libraries, and libraries with collections about publishing and book history. So most records will not have an authority controlled field for the publisher name. And, yes, when the publisher name is in an authority controlled field (which should be 710 for a corporate name added entry), it may be mapped to "author" since it would be a "corporate author"--that is, a corporate entity with responsibility for the item's existence.
So since this is a very uncommon practice for most libraries, I think this will cause you challenges--you will probably have to add a 710 to every record and then download or create authority records (with 110 fields) for every publisher, if you truly want to have authority-controlled publisher name access.
We are a museum library, and we do not have authority-controlled access for publishers' names--for us, the keyword access that Koha provides to every word in the record (including publishers' names transcribed into the 260 or 264 field) is enough for us and works well. Considering all these challenges to providing authority controlled access to publishers' names, is it worth it for your users? Do you have the specialized focus in your library that would make it worthwhile to do the extra work to create or download authority records for the publishers' names, and add a matching 710 field to every record? The "best practice" is often different for each library--what is the best practice for us may not be the best practice for you.
I hope this is helpful, and I wish I had better suggestions for you. Best regards, Heather ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Heather Hernandez Technical Services Librarian San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center 2 Marina Blvd., Bldg. E, 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA 94123-1284 415-561-7032, heather_hernandez@nps.gov https://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/research-center.htm
"The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail."--Gustaf Lindborg
-- Regards, Krishna
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