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Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 11:53:55 -0800
From: Carol Morse <MorsCa@WWC.EDU>
Subject: Re: Need help categorizing periodicals (Liu Liu)

We call those kind of serials "General" or "General Interest."  I believe
it's a common practice in libraries.
Carol Morse

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Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 13:53:44 -0600
From: "MD_Buddy (Buddy Pennington)" <MD_Buddy@KCLIBRARY.ORG>
Subject: Re: Need help categorizing periodicals (Liu Liu)

Are any of your 24 categories close to current events, social sciences or
society, etc.?  Or if you had a General Interest category, Time and Newsweek
could go there.  Whatever you do, try to be consistent!

About the newspapers.  It could go either way.  My preference would be to
put all of the newspapers together.  I think it would make processing go
more smoothly and it keeps you from having to make difficult decisions about
what categories certain newspapers should go under.  if they are all in one
place, it makes things easier on staff and does not make it any harder on
users than breaking them up into the categories.

Buddy Pennington
Document Delivery Librarian
Kansas City Public Library
md_buddy@kclibrary.org
816-701-3552

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Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 15:49:35 -0500
From: Naomi Young <naomi@SMATHERSNT2.UFLIB.UFL.EDU>
Subject: Re: Need help categorizing periodicals (Liu Liu)

Perhaps you could make a general category, News, for both  general news
magazines and general newspapers? (Every system of classification really
*needs* a "general", "miscellaneous" or "other" category, in my opinion, but
if you aren't allowed to have one, "News" might be close enough.)

I would class the Wall Street Journal with business, but it wouldn't be
wrong to leave it with other newspapers, as their general news coverage is
an increasing part of its content, I believe.

Hope this helps,

Naomi Young

Naomi Kietzke Young ** Head, Serials Cataloging
Resource Services, University of Florida
PO Box 117007 Gainesville, FL 32611-7007
Phone: (352) 392-0355 ext. 234 ** Fax: (352) 392-7365
naomi@mail.uflib.ufl.edu

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 2:38 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Need help categorizing periodicals (Liu Liu)

    For statistical purposes, I was told to assign a broad subject category
to each periodical in our collection, out of 24 subject categories: History,
Political Sciences, sociology, Business, etc. I have also created a
newspaper category to accommodate  newspapers which cannot be put into any
subject categories.

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There is not a category called multi-disciplinary, nor am I allowed to use
categories other than these 25 categories.

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P.S. The 24 subject categories are:
Agriculture, Anthropology, Art, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Computer
Science, Education, Engineering, Geography, History, Language & Literature,
Law, Library Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Music, Performing Arts,
Philosophy & Religion, Physical Education, Physical Sciences, Political
Sciences, Psychology, Sociology.
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