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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:53:08 -0500
From: Maija Cravens <mscravens@MAIL.SHSW.WISC.EDU>
Subject: "Title history" in Rare Book Cataloging

In our retrospective conversion efforts, we've come across a few serial
records that use a 500 note Title history which lists all the title
variations that the serial (often an almanac) has had in its lifetime. The
variant titles also appear in separate 246 fields. For an example of this
type of cataloging, see OCLC#14764325 which I've copied below. The record
was authenticated by a CONSER library. If this is the proper way to
catalog rare book collection serials, could somebody tell me where to find
the documentation?

   1  010     sn88-27801 Ý
Ü   2  040     PBU ßc PBU ßd NYG ßd DLC ßd OCL ßd DLC ßd IUL Ý
Ü   3  012     ßi 9905 Ý
Ü   4  042     lc Ý
Ü   5  043     n-us-ny Ý
Ü   6  050 00  AY256.N5 ßb W38 ßu <Rare Bk Coll : Am Almanac Coll> Ý
Ü   7  092     615.853 ßb W324 Ý
Ü   8  090     ßb  Ý
Ü   9  049     WIHA Ý
Ü  10  245 00  Water-cure and health almanac, for ... / ßc compiled by Joel
Shew. Ý
Ü  11  246 3   Water cure and health almanac, for ... Ý
Ü  12  246 3   Illustrated water-cure almanac and health almanac, for ... ßf
1850 Ý
Ü  13  246 3   American water-cure and health almanac, for ... ßf 1851- Ý
Ü  14  246 3   Illustrated water-cure almanac for ... ßf <1854>-1857 Ý
Ü  15  246 3   American water-cure almanac for ... ßf 1858-<1861> Ý
Ü  16  260     New York : ßb W.H. Graham, Ý
Ü  17  300     v. : ßb ill. ; ßc 20 cm. Ý
 18  310     Annual Ý
Ü  19  500     Printer varies. Ý
Ü  20  500     Description based on: 1847; title from cover. Ý
Ü  21  500     Title history:  Water-cure and health almanac, for ... <1847>-
1949; Illustrated water-cure almanac an health almanac, for ... 1850-  ;
American water-cure and health almanac, for ... 1851-  ; Illustrated water-cure almanac for ... <1854>-1857; American water-cure almanac for ...1858-<1861> Ý
Ü  22  500     American Almanac Collection: 1847, 1849-1850, 1854, 1856-1858,
1860-1861. ß5 DLC Ý
Ü  23  510 4   Drake, M. Almanacs ßc 8493 et al. Ý
Ü  24  500     Imprint varies. Ý
Ü  25  650  0  Almanacs, American ßz New York (State) Ý
Ü  26  700 1   Shew, Joel, ßd 1816-1855. Ý
Ü  27  710 2   American Almanac Collection (Library of Congress) ß5 DLC Ý
Ü  28  850     DLC ßa N Ý
Ü  29  936     1861 LIC Ý

Thank you for your help,

___________________________________

Maija Cravens
Head of Cataloging
State Historical Society of Wisconsin Library
816 State Street
Madison, WI 53706
(608)264-6522  Fax: (608)264-6520
mscravens@mail.shsw.wisc.edu