Re: Paris Match Mitch Turitz 17 Nov 1995 18:05 UTC
Rick: I agree with you that this title should be broken up into successive records, but I don't like the idea of asking someone else to take on additional workloads. I would recommend that instead of asking CONSER to clean up the record, that the person who asked the question initially should create a successive record just for the title she has and add it to OCLC as a new record. There should be sufficient information from the latest entry record to be able to create at least a minimal record (hopefully more if she has the pieces in hand). Unfortunately this will probably require a uniform title qualifier to differentiate it from the earlier title. -- Mitch On Thu, 16 Nov 1995, Enrique E. Gildemeister wrote: > Looking at records for Paris Match, I came across a latest entry record > which includes a lot of confusing stuff, #30745023. A lot of the confusion > may have begun with the earlier title varying; maybe also, there was a > hesitancy to treat it as a title change because they were moving away from > latest entry? (I wasn't a serials cataloger then, but I had a student aide > job where all I did was seek out title changes in NST (Ugh!). > <snip> > > I hope someone from CONSER who owns this title will take > up the burden of breaking it down. Sometimes you have to wait, as my trainer > said, "until you see the whites of its eyes". I'm posting this to the list > because I found that little defect very troublesome, and I suspect others may > at some time be faced with this type of problem, too. New York Public, > you deserve accolades, because your photographed card catalog often had the > serial main card which gave the issues checked in, with the right title, so you > could sometimes verify it quite nicely, with 99.44% chance of being "right"! > > ******************************************************************* > * Rick Gildemeister * > * Head of Cataloging/OCLC Enhance Coordinator * > * Lehman College, CUNY * > * "Facilis descensus Averno" * > * Voice: (718) 960-7773 * > * Fax: (718) 960-8952 * > * BITNET: eeglc@cunyvm * > * Internet: eeglc@cunyvm.cuny.edu * > ******************************************************************* _^_ _^_ ( ___ )-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-( ___ ) | | | | | | Mitch Turitz, Serials Librarian | | | | San Francisco State University Library | | | | Internet: turitz@sfsu.edu | | | | | | ( ___ )-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-==-( ___ ) V V "Before the beginning of great brillance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish to the crowd." -- from the I Ching