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You could start with the exact title search as expressed in the Bath Profile: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/bath/tp-bath2.9-e.htm#a . But you may well have to tinker to discover the combination that your server will accept and interpret the way you want it to. All the best, Peter > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of Eric Lease Morgan > Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 3:14 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [CODE4LIB] exact title searches with z39.50 > > What are the ways to accomplish exact title searches with z39.50? > > I'm looping through a list of MARC records trying to > determine whether or not we own multiple copies of an item. > After reading MARC field 245, subfield a I am creating the > following z39.50 query: > > @attr 1=4 "foo bar" > > Unfortunately my local implementation seems to interpret this > in a rather regular expression sort of way -- "* foo bar *". > Does anybody out there know how to create a more exact query? > I only want to find titles exactly equalling "foo bar". > > -- > Eric Lease Morgan > University of Notre Dame > >