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Subject: Change of Publisher
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 01:17:35 +0800
From: liu liu <liuliu@usa.com>

Hi,

   I have been a Serials Librarian for a year.  Here is a dumb question:

   I have a couple of new periodicals in which the publishers have been
changed.
 I went to OCLC to look for a record, but only found records containing
the name of the
previous publisher.  Since our Library belongs to a local consortium, my
supervisor said that
we cannot edit the record in our union library catalog as it will be
used by other libraries
too.   Is the name of the publisher in the record has to match the
periodical we have in hand?
Some periodicals have changed their publishers a couple of times within
a year.  Do we have
to have separate records for that?

   While I am here, I have another unrelated dumb question:
   Our Library has been doing "Table of Contents" service for the
faculty.  We photocopy
the table of contents of their chosen periodicals and provide
photocopies of the articles
they want.  Sometimes, we photocopy the same article for more than one
faculty, and sometimes
we photocopy more than one article from the same periodical for a
faculty.  Are we violating the
copyright law?  Recently I have come across a circular on copyright law,
but the legal
language is difficult to understand, and do libraries have exemption?

   Thanks for your advice.

Becoming smarter,

Liu Liu