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.

https://bugsquash.mobiusconsortium.org/eg2/en-US/staff/catalog/record/1
https://demo.evergreencatalog.com/eg2/en-US/staff/catalog/record/1/

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:

https://demo.evergreencatalog.com/eg2/en-US/staff/catalog/search?org=1&limit=10&query=music&fieldClass=keyword&joinOp=&matchOp=contains&dateOp=is&ridx=1

https://bugsquash.mobiusconsortium.org/eg2/en-US/staff/catalog/search?org=1&limit=10&query=music&fieldClass=keyword&joinOp=&matchOp=contains&dateOp=is&ridx=0

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
www.noblenet.org