Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 16:16:18 -0400
From: Tammy Hefner <thefner@S850.MWC.EDU>
Subject: RE: Serial Uniform Title Question (Steve Oberg)

On Thu, 22 Sep 1994, Steve Oberg wrote:

> Recently I was working on a title: Human Rights Watch/Africa, a newsletter
> published by a corporate body of the same name (formerly known as Africa
> Watch Committee).  I found a CONSER record for a related publication, Human
> Rights Watch/Americas, OCLC #30486545, LCN 94-643688, ISSN 1077-6710, that
> showed a uniform title (130) was created as: Human Rights Watch/Americas
> (Newsletter), with a 245 of: Human Rights Watch/Americas :#b[newsletter].
>
> As far as I can see, there is no conflict with any other serial title, so I
> am unclear as to why a uniform title was created.  Note that the serial title
> is the same as the corporate body, thus explaining the use of #b[newsletter]
> according to LCRI 12.1E1.  I also realize that a uniform title should be
> created when a *series* title is identical to a corporate body name,
> according to LCRI 25.5B.  However, this is cataloged as a serial, not a
> series.
>
> Can anyone provide some ideas as to why this was done, and if it is correct?
>
>
> Steve
>
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Steve:

Several months ago as Serials Assistant, I discovered several name
changes regarding Human Rights Watch Publications.  A letter was sent to
us from which the important stuff appears as follows:

Human Rights Watch has enjoyed trememdous growth...   Today we are fully
known by ten diff. names:  Africa Watch, Americas Watch, Asia Watch,
Helsinki Watch, Middle East Watch, the Arms Project, Prison Project,
Women's Rights Project, the Fund for Free Expression, and Human Rights
Watch.  We believe we can improve our ability to promote human rights by
revising our names to stress the unity and breadth of the organization.
Our ability to enlist influential governments and institutions.... will be
enhanced if the comprehensive scope of our work is more readily apparent.
At the same time, we believe our public identity should reflect our
intention to continue a decentralized form of operation....  Part of our
strenth has derived from our ability to enlist experts....  To highlight
this continuing mode of operation, we have chosen to maintain some
regional and thematic variation in our names while stressing that these
separate identities reflect parts of a single organization, Human Rights
Watch.  The result is the follow new set of names, which we will use
beginning on March 1, 1994:

Human Rights Watch/Africa    replaces (News From) Africa Watch
Human Rights Watch/Americas  replaces (News From) Americas Watch
Human Rights Watch/Asia      replaces (News From) Asia Watch
Human Rights Watch/Helsinki  replaces (News From) Helsinki Watch
Human Rights Watch/Middle East  replaces (News From) Middle East Watch
Human Rights Watch Arms Project   replaces Arms Project
Human Rights Watch Free Expression Project   replaces  Fund for Free Exp.
Human Rights Watch Prison Project   replaces  Prison Project
Human Rights Watch Women's Rights Project   replaces Women's Rights Proj.

These titles are appearing in OCLC as Africa Watch: Newsletter,
Americas Watch: Newsletter, etc.  To date we have only found official
Oclc changes for Africa Watch, Americas Watch, and Middle East Watch.
Our Oclc records numbers are #28030251, #27313684, and #27820728
respectively.

As for your ?, the above is the reason why and YES it is correct
according to my info direct from the horses mouth.

If you need more info. call me direct at (703) 899-4589 are E-Mail to
Tammy Hefner@s850.mwc.edu