Event bulletins (revised w/correction) Enrique E. Gildemeister 22 Jul 1993 17:28 UTC
The following message is being re-posted, at the request of the author, Rick Gildemeister, to correct a typo on the third line of the message, which changes "*non*-occurring" to *non*-recurring. He apologizes for any confusion that may have resulted from the inadvertent misspelling in the first posting. -- Ed. ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- LCRI 12.0A 2) states: Types of publications to be handled as monographs ... items issued for the duration of a single occurrence (e.g., a daily bulletin issued for the duration of a *non*-recurring meeting). I have had some experience with conference literature. I wonder if this should be applied to recurring meetings, for which a bulletin is issued each year the meeting takes place, and numbering begins all over again each year, and the title of the bulletins is always the same. I wonder also if this is to be applied to trial bulletins. I worked as a serials cataloger in the Tamiment Library, a special collection in the New York University Libraries that collects material on labor movements and left-wing history. We had a number of complete sets of trial bulletins that covered the trials of several prominent leftists who were being tried for treason and subversive activity. Fortunately, we cataloged them as serials before this LCRI was promulgated. The head serials cataloger said, after the LCRI came through, that we were not to concern ourselves with them if any more turned up, because they were not serials. My feeling is that these bulletins are indeed "items issued for the duration of a single occurrence". Because our job was to catalog serials only, we didn't have to concern ourselves with them. That may be, that as a serials cataloger I'm not to concern myself with them, but as a general cataloger I want to know how material like this is to be handled. It's definitely an "it walks like a duck" situation. These things do look like serials, have numeric and chronological designations (even "some no. combined"). If they're not serials, what are they and how should we treat them? Should we consider each bulletin a monograph and do what I think is being called at LC "collection level cataloging"? And coming back to conference bulletins, what are they? At Tamiment we took conference bulletins out of the periodicals section and put them in the "organization file," a vertical file with folders containing ephemeral material, folders carrying organization name and filed alphabetically. In other words, we didn't catalog them at all. Questions for the list: 1) What should be done with trial bulletins? 2) What should be done with conference bulletins? I eagerly await the thoughts of others on this problem. Rick Gildemeister Cataloger/OCLC Enhance Coordinator Lehman College of the City University of New York