The Taos Archive contains every piece of information from the following types of record: authority, bibliographic, holdings, and item. Patron records, circulation transactions (those linking items with patrons) and fines/fees were not retained in the Archive, either for privacy reasons or because the data has been aggregated into the data warehouse.
Records for all 3 Taos databases - Ethnomusicology, Film/Television, and UCLA - are stored in the Archive. At present, all records are indexed together, so a search may retrieve records from any or all of the original databases.
| Record Type | Count |
|---|---|
| Authority records | 1,089,722 |
| Bibliographic records | 5,221,631 |
| Holdings records | 7,171,735 |
| Item records | 9,307,788 |
| Bib keywords (selected fields) | 112,470,637 |
Your results will vary depending on the index you use:
| Index | Results | Examples | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author word(s) | Bibliographic records |
mark twainassociation medical
|
Fields indexed: 100, 110, 111, 130, 700, 710, 711, 730 |
| Call number | Holdings records |
KF135NA2 .C34 1994
|
Fields indexed: 852 ($h + $i, $j)
Spaces are ignored for searching, but all other characters are indexed. This is a left-anchored, right-truncated search. |
| DBCN | Authority, bibliographic & holdings records |
02-AAA-1111
07-ABC-1234
|
Fields indexed: 001
OK to search with or without the hyphen |
| ISBN | Bibliographic records |
0872929094
|
Fields indexed: 020
OK to search with or without the hyphen |
| ISSN | Bibliographic records |
1080-210X
|
Fields indexed: 022
OK to search with or without the hyphen |
| Item barcode | Holdings records |
L0073620833
|
Fields indexed: 876 $p, 877 $p, 878 $p |
| Keyword(s) | Bibliographic records |
twain tom sawyerjournal medical
|
Fields indexed: 001, 020, 022, 100, 110, 111, 130, 240, 242, 243, 245, 246, 247, 700, 710, 711, 730, 900 |
| OCLC number | Bibliographic records |
40483669
00999996
|
Fields indexed: 035
OCLC numbers are normalized to 8 digits; include leading zeros as needed |
| Orion1 number | Bibliographic records |
TC0035174
|
Fields indexed: 935 |
| Title word(s) | Bibliographic records |
federal reportermittens gloves
|
Fields indexed: 240, 242, 243, 245, 246, 247 |
All bibliographic searches are done against one big keyword index, which includes all subfields except $6 from all fields specified above.
Normalization was done by keeping English letters (A-Z) and numerals (0-9); stripping apostrophes (e.g., don't became
dont; and replacing all other punctuation with spaces (e.g., 1,000 became 1 000). All diacritics
were removed (e.g., für became fur); this works well for most Western European languages, but with varying success for others.
Use care when doing keyword searches: while the database server's performance is excellent, if your search retrieves thousands of records, it can take a long time to return all of the results to your browser. Formulate your searches to be as specific as possible.
Most of the record display pages are similar to their Taos counterparts, and need only minimal explanation:
Taos MARC records were not stored in Unicode (although the Cataloging client used Unicode for editing). The Archive contains the records as they were stored within Taos, encoded in MARC-8, but displays the records in Unicode for convenience. Known problems with the Unicode display:
Since the Archive preserves data just as it was extracted from Taos, display oddities are almost certainly caused by data errors. However, if you need to be certain of the raw content of an archived record, or if an error occurs while using the archive, please email LIT or call x5-7557.
Last updated: 22 Feb 2005