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== Display of 7xx in general ==
In addition to the above problem with 7xx analytics in particular, 7xx's provide an even more general problem. They might be a uniform title for work cataloged (I can't figure out in what circumstances they'd be this, normally the uniform title is in 140130 or 240, but apparently sometimes it's in a 730. serialsSerials?). They might be a 'citation' (controlled heading) to a related work. They might be an analytic. They might be something else entirely. Is there any way to know what it is? Got me. Without knowing what it is, it's hard to display it appropriately for the user.
How can I know if a 700 is an analytic, or just a related work? Can I even call a person listed in a 700 a "contributor" if it's got a $t? It might not be a contributor at all, but just the author of a related work.
Okay, wait, I didn't want the 006 at all, I really wanted the 008. Okay... The 008 tells me the bytes mean something different depending on whether the record is a "Book", "Music", "Computer File", etc. Where do I tell which it is, to see what the bytes mean? Still working on it.
= Marc MARC and Cooperativing Cooperative Cataloging: False Economies=
Obviously, a single cataloger can't be expected to spend hours recording every possible bit of metadata that could apply to a work, nor can most libraries provide the level of funding to afford that. However, it ought to be possible to distribute the work and incrementally improve our metadata; although bibliographic utilities could be a nexus for that sort work, valuable information often gets left out of many records.
== Tables of contents and composite works ==
Much science fiction, to give an example, exists as short stories that end up in libraries as in anthologies. Without even a 505, it's impossible for a patron to see if the library has 'The Cold Equations' by Tom Godwin.
