diff --git a/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/solr/VIVOPreferredTitleField.java b/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/solr/VIVOPreferredTitleField.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..04cd894a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/solr/VIVOPreferredTitleField.java
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+/* $This file is distributed under the terms of the license in /doc/license.txt$ */
+
+package edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.solr;
+
+import static edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.VitroSearchTermNames.ALLTEXT;
+import static edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.VitroSearchTermNames.ALLTEXTUNSTEMMED;
+import static edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.VitroSearchTermNames.PREFERRED_TITLE;
+
+import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
+import org.apache.solr.common.SolrInputDocument;
+
+import com.hp.hpl.jena.query.ResultSet;
+import com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.RDFNode;
+
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.beans.Individual;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.rdfservice.RDFService;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.rdfservice.RDFServiceFactory;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.rdfservice.impl.RDFServiceUtils;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.solr.documentBuilding.DocumentModifier;
+
+/**
+ * If there are any VCards on this Individual with Title objects, store the text
+ * in the Preferred Title search field.
+ */
+public class VIVOPreferredTitleField implements DocumentModifier {
+	private static final Log log = LogFactory
+			.getLog(VIVOPreferredTitleField.class);
+
+	private static final String QUERY_TEMPLATE = ""
+			+ "prefix vcard: <http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#> \n"
+			+ "prefix obo: <http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/> \n\n"
+			+ "SELECT ?title WHERE { \n" //
+			+ "  ?uri obo:ARG_2000028 ?card . \n"
+			+ "  ?card a vcard:Individual . \n"
+			+ "  ?card vcard:hasTitle ?titleHolder . \n"
+			+ "  ?titleHolder vcard:title ?title . \n" //
+			+ "}";
+
+	private RDFServiceFactory rdfServiceFactory;
+	private boolean shutdown = false;
+
+	public VIVOPreferredTitleField(RDFServiceFactory rdfServiceFactory) {
+		this.rdfServiceFactory = rdfServiceFactory;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public void modifyDocument(Individual individual, SolrInputDocument doc,
+			StringBuffer addUri) {
+		if (individual == null)
+			return;
+
+		String uri = "<" + individual.getURI() + "> ";
+		String query = QUERY_TEMPLATE.replaceAll("\\?uri", uri);
+		log.debug("Get preferred title(s) for " + uri);
+
+		try {
+			RDFService rdfService = rdfServiceFactory.getRDFService();
+			ResultSet results = RDFServiceUtils.sparqlSelectQuery(query,
+					rdfService);
+			if (results != null) {
+				while (results.hasNext()) {
+					log.debug("Next solution");
+					RDFNode node = results.nextSolution().get("title");
+					if ((node != null) && (node.isLiteral())) {
+						String title = node.asLiteral().getString();
+						doc.addField(PREFERRED_TITLE, title);
+						doc.addField(ALLTEXT, title);
+						doc.addField(ALLTEXTUNSTEMMED, title);
+						log.debug("Preferred Title for " + uri + ": '" + title
+								+ "', '" + node.toString() + "'");
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		} catch (Exception e) {
+			if (!shutdown) {
+				log.error("problem while running query '" + query + "'", e);
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public void shutdown() {
+		shutdown = true;
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/solr/VivoDocumentModifiers.java b/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/solr/VivoDocumentModifiers.java
index 569a407a..f7ada816 100644
--- a/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/solr/VivoDocumentModifiers.java
+++ b/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/solr/VivoDocumentModifiers.java
@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ public class VivoDocumentModifiers implements javax.servlet.ServletContextListen
             context.setAttribute("DocumentModifiers", modifiers);
         }
         
-        modifiers.add(new CalculateParameters(dataset));                
+        modifiers.add(new CalculateParameters(dataset));   
+        modifiers.add( new VIVOPreferredTitleField( rdfServiceFactory ));
         modifiers.add( new VivoISFBasicFields( rdfServiceFactory ));
         modifiers.add( new VivoISFAdvisingFields( rdfServiceFactory ));
         modifiers.add( new VivoISFEducationFields( rdfServiceFactory ));