Re: People weekly Horn, Marguerite 11 Jul 2002 20:26 UTC
As Incoming Chair of Worst Serial Title Change of the Year Award Committee, I would be MOST happy to consider this for an award. Maggie *********************************************************************** Marguerite E. "Maggie" Horn Library Systems Implementation Specialist Office of Library & Information Services System Administration State University Plaza Albany, NY 12246 voice: 518 443-5564 fax: 518 443-5358 e-mail: hornma@sysadm.suny.edu *********************************************************************** -----Original Message----- From: Regina Reynolds [mailto:rrey@LOC.GOV] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 4:28 PM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: Re: People weekly I have a small wrinkle to add to the People weekly discussion. Christina McCawley is correct that, unfortunately, changes in frequency words do constitute major changes under both current rules and under the new major/minor changes rules which LC and CONSER will put into effect Dec. 1. So, a new record will be created for the new title People. However, because those assigning the ISSN back in the early 1970's were following looser rules for the construction of the key title, the key title for this serial has been People for all of this time. Therefore, although a new bibliographic record will be created, it will carry the same ISSN and key title as are on the current record. This kind of discrepancy between number of ISSN and number of records is one of the problems that it is hoped will be largely eliminated by the international harmonization efforts that accompanied the development of revised Chapter 12 and the revised ISSN and ISBD(CR) standards. A final note: the groups working on the new rules for major and minor changes tried to include changes in frequency words among the minor changes but ran into difficulties because those words can sometimes distinguish between different kinds of administrative publications. Who knows? Maybe this will be resolved in a future rule revision?? Regina Reynolds Head, National Serials Data Program (US ISSN Center) rrey@loc.gov On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, McCawley, Christina wrote: > According to Jean Hirons' presentation at NASIG: > > Frequency is a major change when it is added or dropped in the title,e.g., > Atlantic to Atlantic monthly is a major change. So I assume People weekly > to People would also be a major change and considered a new title. > > Christina McCawley > West Chester University > West Chester, PA 19383 > cmccawley@wcupa.edu > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dan Lester [SMTP:dan@riverofdata.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 11:51 AM > > To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU > > Subject: Re: People weekly > > > > I'm not a cataloger, but that sure sounds like a title change to me. > > > > Maybe this could be worthy of one of title change awards....for a > > title that has been changed but that "hasn't technically changed", > > whatever in the world that might mean. At least to me, it seems that > > something has changed, or it hasn't, and it can't be both. But maybe > > I'm just not with the modern world. Hmmmmm....how can it NOT change > > and still be "fresh and not boring"? > > > > cheers > > > > dan > > > > > > Tuesday, July 9, 2002, 5:29:04 PM, you wrote: > > > > KB> I just talked to their customer service and they said that they have > > KB> dropped the "weekly" off of the name but haven't technically changed > > the > > KB> name. The reason they gave for doing this was to keep everything > > fresh > > KB> and not boring. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Dan Lester, Data Wrangler dan@RiverOfData.com 208-283-7711 > > 3577 East Pecan, Boise, Idaho 83716-7115 USA > > www.riverofdata.com www.gailndan.com Stop Global Whining! > Regina R. Reynolds email: rrey@loc.gov Head, National Serials Data Program voice: (202) 707-6379 Library of Congress fax (202) 707-6333 101 Independence Avenue, S.E. ISSN Web page: lcweb.loc.gov/issn/ Washington, D.C. 20540-4160