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Re: closing date in marc record? Christopher H. Walker 19 Oct 2007 19:05 UTC

Judging from the way the MARC tags are coded,
the cataloger at the institution that closed the record  (IUL)
did not have piece in hand, for the last issue.
Otherwise the 362 would have been closed in a single formatted line.
The CEG says not to edit the 260 subfield c without piece in hand.

Christopher H. Walker
Serials Cataloging Librarian
126 Paterno Library

The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802-1812

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:44:48 -0400  "SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum"               wrote:

The December 2006 issue of Journal of experimental zoology, Part A,
Comparative experimental biology was the last issue with that title.
Beginning with the following issue, January 2007, there is a different
title, and a new marc record was created.

My question has to do with the record for the old title, OCLC #51539982.
It was correctly updated to include a 362 tag with "ceased with"
information and a 785 tag with succeeding entry info, but the 260 tag,
subfield c, still reads c2003-  .  Shouldn't it be changed to
c2003-2006.  ?

Lynne N. Weaver

Serials Coordinator

Lipscomb Library

Randolph College

Lynchburg, VA  24503

lweaver@randolphcollege.edu