Dear SERIALiSTs,

Mac Elrod, who is not a member of this list, has asked me to forward his
response to this recent discussion (a message of his was forwarded here
previously).

--Rich.V.

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To: rviolett@socialaw.com
From: jelrod@IslandNet.com (J. McRee Elrod)
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: From serial to loose-leaf to serial]
Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 13:58:40 -0400
Organization: Special Libraries Cataloguing, Inc.

Here is my response if you want to send it.

David said:

>                 The National Library of Canada (as well as its ISSN
> Canada) was a founding member of CONSER and, twenty years later, NLC
> still contributes its valued serial records to the CONSER database.

But ISM/Catss has not adopted it as a standard as has OCLC.  Most
records I derive still have at least the decade with"?" in brackets a la
AACR2 as opposed to a dangling comma a la CONSER.

> >We have one record with the note:
> >
> >515$aIssued as a loose-leaf service with semiannual updates 1985-1993;
> >issued as annual paperbound edition 1994-    .
>
>                 * Would that be one primarily monograph (loose-leaf)
> record, or one primarily serial record?

This record was changed from serial to monograph, and now back again.
There is less difference between serial and monograph records in
ISM/Catss than in OCLC or RLIN since Catss has had format integration
from the beginning, 008 broken out into numbered fixed fields.  This
record aways had 2: m and 4: 9999. All that changed was 30: s to 30: m
and now back to 30: s. (Catss does not use 2: c for open dates because
of its earlier use for copyright dates.)

Mac

J. McRee (Mac) Elrod | Special Libraries Cataloguing, Inc.
jelrod@IslandNet.com | Metchosin, British Columbia, Canada