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April 19, 2016

re: International inventory of musical sources
While I know the angled brackets are signifying incomplete publications, the and volume numbers are quite misleading now, since dates go well into the 2000s. It might be good to update from the current online version of Grove.

Ann: I edited our entry to match the current OCLC record already linked to from the entry, which eliminates the angled brackets and should make the entry much more clear.

April 4, 2016

Re: Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des XVI. Jahrhunderts (VD 16). A link is given to the online version ; however, the latter now also includes imprints of the 17th century. See the information page: https://opacplus.bib-bvb.de/TouchPoint_touchpoint/gatewaybayern/help/de/databaseDescription_Id_19.jsp
It seems to be possible to search the 17th century imprints separately (https://gso.gbv.de/DB=1.28/), but not the 16th century imprints.
Perhaps the citation form for the online version of the combined databases could be "Verzeichnis der Drucke 16. / 17. Jhd. (VD16 / VD17)"?

Ann: The team agreed that there is no warrant to create a separate citation form for the online version; the resource still identifies itself as VD 16 as distinct from VD 17, and there is no catalog record for the combined search to link our entry to.

March 28, 2016

When I search the citation forms for the author "Walsh", why is that that the "catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library" (of which Walsh is given as the author) is not returned by the search?

Ann: Walsh is the second author on this record, which could not be included in the author search because our search plugin only allowed one field per input. Kelli was able to set the author field to do a keyword search of all the custom fields, but narrow it down to search as a phrase.  That would ensure that all of the author fields get covered, but searching as a phrase would return fewer false positives in the result set.  So far this solution seems to be working.

March 23, 2016

The Brunet citation form (Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l’amateur de livres (5e éd.)) uses the wrong form of the apostrophe (’).

I only mentioned it because I copied and pasted it into a bibliographic record in OCLC Connexion, and the validation process there no longer seems to be catching such "forbidden" signs. I do not know if this is a general bug or something wrong on my end. In this case, the result was that the citation form came out in my local catalog with the apostrophe missing altogether.

Ann: There does not seem to be a way to change the apostrophe display; I did try copying the title directly from OCLC in case that makes a difference.