Karen Coyle said:
>It "identifies" only because it is displayed to humans.
Last I checked, extra terrestrals were not yet using out catalogues.
(Yes, I know you mean machines.)
>-- give me a list of all of the books published in London from 1853-1857
>-- show me which publishers are prominent in this subject area
Using the present SLC OPAC, and Boolean searching, we could answer
those questions. Most present ILSs are very blunt instruments.
It helps to have "London, Eng." or "London [Eng.] in 260$a as we do.
With RDA we won't even have "London, Ont." in the record if not on the
item. It is not that complicated to use the "contains" search of
260$b for publisher surnames.
It is our ILSs which are more at fault than our records, although both
AACR2 and MARC21 could use some revision.
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