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WISCONSIN AUTHORS
Last updated: 7/2011
From July 2011 onward, when cataloging an item by a Wisconsin author, you are to put a 590
field (local note) in the bib record that reads “Wisconsin author.” (both indicators should be
blank).
EXAMPLE: The whingdingdilly - http://topcat.switchinc.org/record=b1206907~S0
Originally there was a staff note (x) in the ITEM record that read “Wisconsin author.” This
was for collection development purposes. If a school was going to week out the item, they
were to search to make sure someone else in Wisconsin owned a copy of the book. Ideally at
least one library would own a copy of these Wisconsin author books.
However, at the Cataloging June 2011 meeting (CSU), the group decided to start using the 590
field for local series notes (title and keyword indexed). Records written by a “Wisconsin
author” would have such a 590 note field. The SWITCH office created a list in July 2011 and
added a 590 field (Wisconsin author) in all existing records (1044) that needed it. From that
point forward it is the responsibility of catalogers to insert the Wisconsin author note in the 590
of the bib.
Staff may or may not also want to add in a staff note within the appropriate item record that
reads “Wisconsin Author”. The staff note does not display to the public but the 590 field in the
bib does. . This will be labeled as “Local Series Note” in the Web Opac.
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