Re: Authority Records for Uniform Title Headings (Mitch Turitz) Ann Ercelawn 08 May 1997 02:12 UTC
Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 15:23:48 -0700 From: Mitch Turitz <turitz@SFSU.EDU> Subject: Re: Authority Records for Uniform Title Headings (Ann Jones) Ann: I think the problem here is that your boss is confusing SERIES Authority records with Serial bibliographic uniform title headings. Series authority records may indeed also be uniform title headings, but for a specific series (i.e. MONOGRAPHIC SERIES). If this is the case, it would not be inappropriate to have the LC authority record for the series in your database. -- Mitch ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 11:04:23 -0600 From: "Ann L. Jones" <ajones@ARTIC.EDU> Subject: Authority Records for Uniform Title Headings I am the only serials cataloger at my institution and the Head of the Technical Services Dept. has asked me to consider adding authority records for serial uniform title headings to our online catalog. Please note that I am not being asked to create them, but merely to add them to our authority file whenever I find them in the LC Authority Files. I objected that such records are generally not created and, furthermore, that I had never seen any in the LC Files but was told that they did indeed exist. I have never actively searched for them when adding uniform title headings to my records and feel that doing so would add an unecessary step to my cataloging. I also see little real benefit to doing so since the authority record would only duplicate the index entry for the heading in the bibliographic record. I double-checked the section on Uniform Titles in the CONSER Cataloging Manual and found no mention of authority records for these headings (not that I expected any). I then searched the LC Authority Files for the titles "annual report #" and "bulletin #" (FYI for OCLC-users and others: # is the RLIN truncation symbol) and found plenty of uniform title headings for varient language editions as well as a few for analyzed series but none whatsoever for straight serial uniform titles. There is the occasional LC record for a serial title of which a single issue was analyzed (e.g. NAFL425412), but those are used to record exceptions not to set precedent. My question for this group is: Is there something I'm missing here or is this request as off-base as I think it is? If it would actually do our patrons some good to have these authority records in our system then I would be happy to add them, but I'm not convinced. Thanks much. ************* Ann Leslie Jones 312-443-3526 (voice) Assistant Head of Technical Services 312-443-0849 (fax) Ryerson & Burnham Libraries ajones@artic.edu The Art Institute of Chicago ------------------------------ _^_ _^_ ( ___ )-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-( ___ ) | | | | | | Mitch Turitz, Serials Librarian | | | | San Francisco State University Library | | | | Internet: turitz@sfsu.edu | | | | http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~turitz | | | | | | ( ___ )-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-==-( ___ ) V V "I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather ... ... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car."