Description based on notes Birdie MacLennan 21 Jul 1992 21:24 UTC
4 messages, 87 lines: ------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 18:25:54 HST From: Sophia McMillen <SOPHIA@UHUNIX.BITNET> Subject: Re: Description based on notes On "Description based on" notes: I agree with Nebraska that this note is for catalogers rather than users, but feel it is useful. We use it in our original input because a) it's prescribed in AACR2, and b) we appreciate it when we find it in someone else's record and the info helps identify/clarify your own possible sketchy holdings of a particular title. I sometimes edit the note in an outside member record to reflect our earliest issue held on the grounds that this note would be doubly confusing to the public if it did not match our holdings. But I feel that serials catalogers are no less an important category of bib record user than the great public beyond tech services dept. doors. A portion of the bib record which helps or speeds up our own work need not be purged from bib records, in my opinion. Sophia McMillen / University of Hawaii at Manoa ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 08:47:00 GMT From: "John Radencich, Library Cataloging Dept." <RADENCIC@SERVAX.BITNET> Subject: Description Based on Notes Personally, I love description based on notes. Indeed, I think it is one of the best innovations of AACRII. Before then I felt that the user searching for information on a serial was left hanging if you didn't have the first issue of a serial to base the cataloging on. Where did the description information come from? Vol. 1, no. 2; vol. 10, no. 9; vol. 3, no. 4? What was the description information relevant to? Most of the run of the serial, some, the last few issues? With the description based on note you can give an anchor to your cataloging of a serial. It gives you a distinctive beginning point for your description and makes it clear exactly what parts of a serial (in terms of its history) you are referring to. John Radencich Florida International University RADENCIC@SERVAX.BITNET RADENCIC@SERVAX.FIU.EDU ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 08:18:17 PDT From: George Janczyn <janczyn%nowalls.ucsd.edu@SDSC.BITNET> Subject: Description based on notes My reply assumes the question is limited to serials. At our library (UC San Diego) we use "description based on notes" because our policy is to follow AACR2(r) and the LCRIs for it. Rule 12.7B23 states "If the description is not based on the first issue, identify the issue used as the basis for the description." This is not an optional rule. There are good reasons for this rule, and I'm sure plenty of other serials catalogers will have something to say something about this. Obviously the note will help to distinguish the title in question from other serials with the same title, as well as assist other catalogers in ascertaining when a title change may have taken place. Many other reasons will no doubt be put forth by serials catalogers. George J. Janczyn Acting Head, Serials Cataloging Central Library University of California, San Diego janczyn@nowalls.ucsd.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:40:11 -0400 From: Sara Davenport <davenpor@CLOY.OSWEGO.EDU> Subject: Re: Description based on notes I believe that the "Description based on" note is most useful for catalogers, particularly serials catalogers. I find this is particularly true when I am creating an original record for a locally created serial (such as a local business directory, published in the early 1900s, which only contains chronology and no enumeration on the piece). The cataloging record should be created from the first issue of a serial, but sometimes it is difficult to determine if you have the first issue. In this case, the "description based on" note is helpful to future catalogers who may discover earlier or later issues of the title you cataloged. Sara Davenport - Head of Serials and Acquisitions Penfield Library Voice: (315) 341-3545 SUNY Oswego Bitnet: davenpor@snyoswva Oswego, NY 13126 Internet: davenpor@oswego.oswego.edu