NOLPE monographic series (2 messages) Birdie MacLennan 28 Sep 1993 17:14 UTC
2 messages, 78 lines: -------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 09:56:50 CDT From: Ian Fairclough <SHFAIR@LSUVM.BITNET> Subject: More on the NOLPE monograph series Thank you, Ann Ercelawn, for a thorough answer in general terms to the questions I posed yesterday. I have now done an LDBASE search -- actually, two of them -- on "numbered series" and "unnumbered series," which has revealed that plenty has already been said in this general area! I would still like to hear from anyone who has handled this specific series. I should clarify that each title is separately cataloged. "NOLPE Monograph/Book series" is found on no. 45. Not all titles are numbered. Some works received on the same standing order lack a series title; of these, one in particular, called "The principal's legal handbook," does not seem to belong in the series, but others do. (If the "Worst serial title" people are listening in, I think you may have a candidate here.) What did you do in your library? Speaking once again, only for myself, etc., Ian Fairclough Head of Cataloging LSU in Shreveport BITNET: shfair@lsuvm INTERNET: shfair@lsuvm.sncc.lsu.edu ---------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 09:05:00 PDT From: Louise Ratliff <ECZ5LR2@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU> Subject: Re: NOLPE monograph series Dear Ian, I am a serials cataloger at UCLA and have had occasion to look at some of the NOLPE publications. True, they are _not_ consistent! In our automated system, ORION, we do _not_ create a bibliographic record for a series if the individual volumes receive separate cataloging. The only record we keep for the series is the one used for check-in and payment information. Each volume that is cataloged as a monograph has its own record. If a volume contains a series statement, then we put a series in the 440 or 830; if it does not have a series statement, then there is none put into the monographic record. The payment record for the series usually serves the function of a series authority record, but it doesn't necessarily have to, since some of our payment records are pretty old and the form of the series may have changed over time. We always check on OCLC for a series authority record, and if there is one, that is what goes into the monographic record as the added entry. If an established series has a variant (I think the one you cite falls into this category), I would be tempted to make an added entry on my payment record for the variant series statement, and use the "established" form of the series as an 830 in the monograph. I would do this because I suspect the differences in the series statements are due more to the publisher's inconsistency than an intention to have separate series. Thus, you would have: 245 NOLPE monograph title 490 NOLPE series statement on the volume (not the established one) 830 Your established NOLPE series statement (I would choose the one represented by the authority record, since the future is longer than the past). Just my humble opinion! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Louise Ratliff, Serials Cataloger Cataloging Department ECZ5LMR@UCLAMVS.BITNET UCLA - URL A1538 ECZ5LMR@mvs.oac.ucla.edu 405 Hilgard Ave. (310) 825-1936 Los Angeles, CA 90024-1575 FAX (310) 206-4974