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I think in order to accomplish this you'd have to send a completeness or truncation attribute: @attr 1=4 6=3 "foo bar" # search for 'foo bar' as the complete field @attr 1=4 6=2 "foo bar" # search for 'foo bar' as the complete subfield @attr 1=4 5=100 "foo bar" # do not truncate - although this is probably not exactly right. The full list is here: http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/defns/bib1.html Although I will bet that Aleph (which I assume you're querying) doesn't support any of this. I actually just wrote about this exact thing tonight: http://dilettantes.code4lib.org/2009/04/commoditizing-the-stack/ -Ross. On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 >