Hello all,
It looks like a lot of Concerto records are missing spaces in their 008 fields which throws off their fixed field data. I noticed this while testing out a fixed field bug today, and I see it on both the Mobius and Equinox bug squashing servers. Note how the "ita" language code for Italian slipped into the Cont field on this record.
This first line is the 008 in the record, the second line is the 008 with pound signs in place of missing spaces to demonstrate.
970701s1989 it a u000 0 ita u
970701s1989 ###it a ##u######000 0 ita u
You'll find many parallel examples if you search both servers for the same records:
Both servers also have records with correctly spaced 008 fields, too, usually DVDs for mainstream movies. That's why I suspect something's wrong with the dataset.
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Chris Amorosi
Bibliographic Services Supervisor
NOBLE: North of Boston Library Exchange
Danvers, MA
978-777-8844 x208