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How to Input Main Entry Headings on Item Records:
- Click the Search button to bring up a search window
- Search the main entry heading of the first card
- Display from the index window a bib record that contains this heading
- Copy the form of heading from the bib record
- Switch to the item record window and paste the heading into the ENUM field
- Truncate the heading if necessary
- Type in the heading following the normalization rules below if the heading is not found from the search
ORBIS Normalization Rules:
- Leading articles are deleted for main title entries
- All alphabetic characters are set to upper-case
- Diacritics and leading characters are deleted
- Apostrophes are deleted; all other punctuation characters are replaced by a space
- Delimiters and subfield codes are deleted
- The music symbol for "flat" is replaced by its spelled out version (FLAT)
- The music symbol for "sharp" is deleted
- Greek characters are carried as upper-case alphabetic characters
- Superscripts are replaced by asteriks
- Subscripts are carried as simple numbers
- Data inside the angle brackets is deleted if the first four characters following the left angle bracket are "i.e."
- Following completion of the above normalization if more than one space in a row exists, the extra space is deleted
- Diagraphs are carried as two upper-case alphabetic characters
Examples:
Leading Articles
The history and Adventures of Little Henry (original)
HISTORY AND ADVENTURES OF LITTLE HENRY (normalized)
The Fight against Fraud
FIGHT AGAINST FRAUD (normalized)
Diacritics
K¨oster, Albert (original)
KOSTER ALBERT (normalized)
N¯ad¯i al-Kit¯ab al-‘Arab¯i (London, England) (original)
NADI AL KITAB AL ARABI LONDON ENGLAND (normalized)
‘Abd al-Sal¯am, A!hmad (original)
ABD AL SALAM AHMAD (normalized)
Apostrophes:
O'Hare, Aileen (original)
OHARE AILEEN (normalized)
People's Action for Cultural Ties (original)
PEOPLES ACTION FOR CULTURAL TIES (normalized)
Other Punctuation Characters:
Evan-Iwanowski, R.M. (original)
EVAN IWANOWSKI R M (normalized)
Fitzgerald-Jones, Sandra (original)
FITZGERALD JONES SANDRA (normalized)
Auto/biography studies (original)
AUTO BIOGRAPHY STUDIES (normalized
Democracy & the Arts (original)
DEMOCRACY THE ARTS (normalized)
5% 10-15 Gold Debutantes (original)
5 10 15 GOLD DEBUTANTES (normalized)
Greek Characters:
‡-glucosidases (original)
BETA GLUCOSIDASES (normalized)
An α- and γ- spectroscopic study (original)
ALPHA AND GAMMA SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY (normalized)
Superscript:
[A]²B-K (original)
A2 B K (normalized)
Subscript:
H2[subscript]S data reduction (original) H2S DATA REDUCTION (normaized)
More than One Space in a Row:
Wilson, H.B. (Harry Bristow). 1774-1853 (original)
WILSON H B HARRY BRISTOW 1774 1853 (normalized)
Freschi, Andrea, b. 1774 (original)
FRESCHI ANDREA B 1774 (normalized)
Milton, William, d. 1790 (original)
MILTON WILLIAM D 1790 (normalized)
Digraph:
Æ (original)
AE (normalized)
Æ gahmands bænk (original)
AE GAHMANDS BAENK (normalized)
Œuvres de P. Corneille (original)
OEUVRES DE P CORNEILLE (normalized)
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