[VuFind-Tech] title fields questions

[Naomi D. <nd...@st...>]

Has anyone else's librarian's suggested the following?

In one of our librarian views of the VuFind index fields, our resident  
MARC expert said:

oldTitle:  should be 780 subfield "t"  (currently "a")
newTitle: should be 785 subfield "t" (currently "a")

Looking at the MARC documentation:
780:  http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd780.html
785:  http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd785.html
   "a" is "main entry" and "t" is "title."   I can't remember what he  
said exactly, but he convinced me that "t" is the more appropriate  
subfield.

also, he suggests that the title field should be changed:

title:  should be 245 subfields "a" "b" "n" and "p" (currently only  
"a" and "b").

I think his example was of a complex journal search that had been in  
two separate parts and then replaced by another journal.

Just wondering if anyone else did the above, or considered the above  
and did NOT do it ...

Naomi Dushay
nd...@st...