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

[Elaine Hardy]

A core principle in creating Evergreen was that an ILS should never force
you to change policies, including cataloging policies. Rather, the ILS
should adapt for those policies. So I am never happy when I hear that
correct cataloging has to be changed in order to conform to something
Evergreen does. Especially something like this -- when supplying more
information to help user discovery is actually hindering discover.

My gut reaction is to not remove anything that is correct and useful in a
record. But I say this without knowing how difficult making changes to the
filter for language is and whether it is possible to make timely changes to
the filter.

J. Elaine Hardy, PINES and Collaborative Projects Manager
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On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 2:39 PM Janet Schrader <jschrader at cwmars.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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