Edgerton, 'Improving Dissertation Record Displays', NCSU Libraries Newsletter v1995n00 (Edgerton Janet)
_The NCSU Libraries Newsletter_
Volume 22 no. 8
March 1995
Edgerton, Janet
"Improving Dissertation Record Displays"


Beginning in February 1995, the holdings information 
pertaining to microfiche copies of NCSU dissertations is 
attached to the bibliographic records for the print copies of 
those dissertations.  This change helps "unclutter" the display 
in the Libraries' online catalog:  there is only one entry for 
each NCSU dissertation cataloged after February 1.  Previous 
practice called for two separate bibliographic records for each 
dissertation.  One of the bibliographic records represented the 
print copy of the dissertation and the other represented the 
microfiche copy.

Users should find the new method less confusing.  They will 
get only one hit when searching for a particular NCSU 
dissertation, and the holdings will display in the following 
order:  the D. H. Hill Special Collections copy will be listed 
first, followed by the Hill stacks copy, and then by the D. H. 
Hill Microforms Room copy (in microfiche).  When there is a 
print copy destined for a branch library, holdings for that copy 
will be listed after the microfiche copy.  We hope this change 
speeds researchers in their quest for information contained in 
the dissertations written by NCSU students!