[Evergreen-catalogers] Language filters and original language of a translation

[Janet Schrader]

Hi Everyone,

After Jennifer comments at this weeks EG Catalogers webinar I would be
remiss if I didn't have a Friday email this week.

A few weeks ago CWMARS added some new languages to our list of language
limiters. When doing that, we also added more 041 subfields to this record
attribute. I wanted to include $j for video recording subtitles. We
included $h, language code of original work. Patrons and staff are fine
with the subtitles but we ran into complaints about the original language.
Now searches for works in French or Persian are retrieving English
translations of these works, frustrating patrons.

This weeks question is, should we remove 041 $h so the language limiter
picks up only works in the searched language?  I thought I had an email
somewhere about the best codes to keep in 041 for the language filter as
some were "too aggressive" such as including the codes for language of
intermediate translations ($k) or language of table of contents ($f).



Thanks,
Janet


Janet Schrader

Bibliographic Services Supervisor | CW MARS

67 Millbrook Street, Suite 201, Worcester, MA 01606

P: 508-755-3323 x 325 | F: 508-757-7801

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