Free Floater - Electronic Journal - Answers I've received (LONG) Julia Esparza 17 Jan 2002 21:31 UTC
Dear friends, Many people asked for me to send them responses so I'm going to just give it to everyone and let you guys delete it if you don't want to read it. Forwarding four emails would be difficult on me. First thanks to Buddy Pennington at Kansas City Public Library and his other colleagues, Val Harris at the Chicago Historical Society, and Frank Sadowski University of Rochester for their assistance. I believe since our new cataloger came from a university using MESH descriptors for cataloging that they established this practice but either don't realize that it was stopped by NLM or decided to keep doing it anyway. The cataloger did say that there are OCLC records with this subdivision. Thanks for all the help in clearing up this issue! Julie Julie Esparza jesparza@ecri.org ECRI - a non profit health services research institute Library 5200 Butler Pike Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462-1298 610.825.6000 Ext. 5184 Voice 610.834.7366 Fax http://www.ecri.org -----Original Message----- From: MD_Buddy (Buddy Pennington) [mailto:MD_Buddy@kclibrary.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 4:01 PM To: Esparza, Julia Cc: MT_April (April Gieseking); MT_Bruce (Bruce Rennie) Subject: Electronic Journal Hi Julia, I found this section of text from Cataloging Practices for the National Library of Medicine (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/catpractices2002.html): Use of ELECTRONIC JOURNAL as a Publication Type is discontinued: The PT ELECTRONIC JOURNAL was included in the list of PTs used as Form Division 1999-2001. NLM discontinued use of ELECTRONIC JOURNAL as a PT in June 2001 and retrospectively removed the PT from bibliographic records in LOCATORplus. This change was made in conformance with NLM"s policy, implemented with MeSH 1999, to discontinue the use of physical format as Publication Type or Genre. Of course, this only applies to MeSh, not LC subject cataloging. I am still looking for LC documentation, but I haven't found any yet to support Electronic Journal over Periodicals and in the serials cataloging workshop I took just last week, we were using $v Periodicals for electronic serials. Buddy Pennington Document Delivery Librarian Kansas City Public Library md_buddy@kclibrary.org 816-701-3552 -----Original Message----- From: MT_Bruce (Bruce Rennie) Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 3:35 PM To: MD_Buddy (Buddy Pennington); MT_April (April Gieseking) Subject: RE: New cataloging rule on free floater - Electronic Journal? As of this moment, there is no 185 (that is, subdivision) authority record on OCLC for "Electronic journal." There *is* a 150 (subject) authority record, but it does not currently contain any instruction for use of that term as a subdivision. That means, sticking to applicable conventions, you would still use (e.g.) Fuzzy sets -- Periodicals ... for print *and/or* electronic journals. Here's a caveat: The applicable instruction for subject headings for electronic serials is SCM:SH H 1580.5, which says to do what I've just described above. However, the pages I checked are dated August 1998. I do know that we are missing our 2000 update no. 2 (I've talked to Theresa about obtaining a replacement), so there is some possibility there is a later version of the instruction. However, "Electronic journal" is not listed in SCM:SH H 1095 (2001 update 2). This, and the situation with the existing authority records, makes me pretty confident that "Electronic journal" is *not* a free floating subdivision as of now. Of course "Electronic journal" is in LCSH as a topical subject (150a/650a), and if we wanted to provide an access point specific to these things, we could enter it as a Form heading in 655. Bruce -----Original Message----- From: Harris, Valerie [mailto:Harris@chicagohistory.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 4:29 PM To: Esparza, Julia Subject: RE: New cataloging rule on free floater - Electronic Journal? Greetings Ms. Esparza: I checked the most recent index of free-floating subdivisions, and Electronic journals was not listed. It's possible that her former place of employment est. local practices for their catalog, and didn't share cataloging via OCLC or RLIN. Sincerely, Val Harris Cataloger (Serials) Chicago Historical Society -----Original Message----- From: Frank Sadowski [mailto:fsadowski@rcl.lib.rochester.edu] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 9:27 AM To: Esparza, Julia Subject: Re: New cataloging rule on free floater - Electronic Journal? Julie, I checked the Subject Cataloging Manual on the Catalogers Desktop, and the closest thing it had was "Electronic information resource" as a free-floater. Of course, it also says it's the 1996 5th edition of the Subject Cataloging Manual. However, I think your cataloger's previous institution was using local practice. Please do put the responses up on SERIALST. ------------------------- Frank E. Sadowski Jr. Principal Cataloger River Campus Libraries University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627-0055