[MinervaCats] French subject headings

[Karl Beiser]

The profile for authority processing by Marcive concerns itself with subject
heading thesauri as reflected in 6xx indicators and subfields.  If a French
subject heading has a 2nd indicator of "0" it will be checked as an LC
heading.  If not found in LC Subjects, it will be deleted.  If the 2nd
indicator is "2" it will be checked against MESH and dropped if not found.
If it is marked with any other indicator the process will attempt to
collapse it into LC. If there is no match, it will be retained with the
indicator it has currently and it will be up to Minerva libraries and MSL
staff to determine whether to delete, retain or manually edit.  Hope this
helps.

Karl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: minervacats-bounces at informe.org [mailto:minervacats-
> bounces at informe.org] On Behalf Of Rebecca Francis
> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 1:53 PM
> To: Karen Jones
> Cc: minervacats-bounces at informe.org; minervacats at lists.maine.gov
> Subject: Re: [MinervaCats] French subject headings
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> I know some libraries (beyond Minerva) do keep foreign language headings
> in records for foreign language items for that very reason.  I think our
> current cataloging rules (here at
> http://www.maine.gov/infonet/minerva/cataloging/howto.htm in the second
> row down in the table, "Bibliographic records are shared...") require that
> foreign language subject headings be deleted, so this needs to be looked
> at by the standards committee.
> 
> In the meantime--how are these headings going to be affected by the
> authority processing--was Marcive given instructions to keep or delete
> them?
> 
> Rebecca
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> Rebecca Francis
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> Curtis Memorial Library
> Brunswick, ME 04011
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> rfrancis at curtislibrary.com
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> "Karen Jones" <kjones at ci.lewiston.me.us>
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> 12/22/2006 11:51 AM To
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> We at Lewiston Public have some materials written in French, Spanish and
> Somali.  I would advocate keeping foreign language subject headings when
> the text of the material is written/spoken in a foreign language to help
> the patrons (who may not speak English well) locate what they need.
> Karen
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> Karen N. Jones                           kjones at ci.lewiston.me.us
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> >>> Rebecca Francis <rfrancis at curtislibrary.com> 12/22/2006 10:45 AM >>>
> Hi Valerie,
> 
> No, we should not be keeping French or Spanish or other foreign language
> subject headings.  We shouldn't have British (usually in 653) subject
> headings either.
> 
> The only headings we should have are regular LC headings, MeSH headings,
> and GSAFD headings.
> 
> Rebecca
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> Rebecca Francis
> Coordinator of Technical Services
> Curtis Memorial Library
> Brunswick, ME 04011
> (207) 725-5242 x218
> rfrancis at curtislibrary.com
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> "Okrent, Valerie P." <vokrent at cmcc.edu>
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> I have a question about subject headings written in French (and any other
> language). Should we be keeping them or deleting them or does it not
> matter?
> 
> Valerie Okrent
> Interlibrary Loan Department
> Central Maine Community College
> (207)755-5335
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