Re: Reprint cataloging Anneke Houtkamp 02 Nov 1995 15:32 UTC

In reply to Kevin Randall:

As a member of the Dutch Working Group on Serial Publication (WESP) I can
tell you that WESP has recently constructed a proposal for the national
cataloguing committee on the matter of fotomechanical reprod. of serial
publications, in order to clarify, rectify, expand the rules to cover present
situation and needs.

As a member of the Hakluyt Society, I can tell you that only those vols. from
the second series that are no longer in print or in stock with the Society
are reprinted by Kraus Reprint.

For the serial description:
If a library has a serial record for this title, and reprints are acquired to
fill in the gaps of the holding, WESP's proposal is: use the record of the
original, and add in the holding annotation which volume/s is/are in
fotomech. reprod.
If a library has no serial record for this title, and has more than one
volume (all of them in reprod.), and wants a serial record, then again the
serial record for the original is made, with holding annotation accordingly.
In a shared catalogue, each individual library would add its own holding
blocks, there would be just the one serial record.

Question: If only incidental volumes are acquired,  would you (have to)
bother with a serial record, or would you only make monograph descriptions?

For the description of the monograph one would have to start with the actual
publication, in this case the fotomech. reprod., and describe it as such
(with ed. field, impression, date of the reprint, and annotation: fotomech.
reprod. of....)

The series field would be related to the main title of the serial record
(whether through index, or codes depends on the technical possibilities of
the system I suppose)

Hope this is of any help to you.
Greetings,

Anneke Houtkamp

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