I sent this message to both Serials-list and Autocat, please excuse the
cross posting.

Here is the story.  I had an agency send me the first 3 issues of a
biennial serial report.  The first issue has a different name from the
other two, hence my problem.  The first issue is titled "Communities
that Care, Youth Survey Report:  Pennsylvania Youth Survey 2001", the
other two issues are simply titled "Pennsylvania Youth Survey Report."
The listed publisher changed with the third issue. The record I
originally put together (but not uploaded to OCLC) looks like this:

245 00 Pennsylvania youth survey report.

246 30 Communities that care: youth survey report (2001)

260      [South Deerfield, Ma.] : $b Channing Bete Co., $c 2002 -

362 1   Began with 2001 report.

500      Description based on 2003; title from cover.

500      Latest issue consulted 2005.

550      2005 report by Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and
Delinquency.

Will this work, or should I create a record for the first issue, and
then a separate record for the rest of the serial?  I have the 2001
report "in hand", but I wanted to base the record on the bulk of the
issues.

I usually don't have something this interesting show up with multiple
issues, so I would like to treat it as a serial and not a monographic
series.  I only started cataloging serials about a year ago, so I am
still learning the nuances.

Thank you for your help.  I never want to look at my Serials-list or
Autocat and see a reference to one of my records in a message with the
phrase "What were they thinking?".

Mary S.

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Mary M. Spila
Pennsylvania Documents Cataloger
State Library of Pennsylvania
333 Market St.
Harrisburg, PA 17126-1745
717-783-3884