[Evergreen-catalogers] How do you compensate for less intuitive cross-references

[Jennifer Weston]

Hi Janet,

I have missed your Friday posts!  I do think the subject of
cross-references would make a good EG conference topic!
I've had several conversations recently related to using authorities to
workaround missing cross-references and some of the challenges of that
option.
Sharing the functionality you've already worked on with the browse search
and exploring what other libraries are doing would be a valuable
presentation.

- Jennifer W.

Jennifer Weston, MLIS
Implementation Project Manager
Equinox Open Library Initiative
phone:  1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) ext. 5574
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On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 1:51 PM Janet Schrader <jschrader at cwmars.org> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> It's been a while, probably because of 2020 the year that seemed both
> eternal and yet over so quickly, since I've posed a Friday question or
> comment. I wonder if the subject of cross-references would make a good EG
> conference topic.
>
> When CWMARS migrated to EG we left a system which at the time had
> excellent cross-references in the OPAC. Along with NOBLE we worked on
> development for these with the result being the ones in the browse search.
> Unfortunately this is not a search widely used by or even known to patrons
> and staff.
>
> How does your network handle this problem? The name the patron searches is
> not the main entry. Libraries have asked us to add an added author to the
> records or to edit the main entries.  This is prevalent not only with
> Asian, Israeli, or Arabic names, but also authors who change names due to
> marriage, divorce, or just plain because they can.
>
>
> 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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