Just to add to the confusion:
  You may want to consider adding the Web link (856) to the Peterson's
Education Center Web site at: http://www.petersons.com
This will let your patrons know that there is another version available
through the Web (and it's FREE!)
-- Mitch

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       Rule #2: It's ALL small stuff.

>(1)------------------------
>Date:         Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:12:39 CDT
>From:         Patty Fogler <pfogler@MAX1.AU.AF.MIL>
>Subject:      links & gaps in records
>
>Another basic question for y'all:
>
>I'm cataloging the new Peterson's College Money Handbook (1997 ed) OCLC
>(35141572).  We haven't received the Peterson title since 1991 for which
>the OCLC record (# 16320103) has long since been closed out.  There's been
>an intervening record for years 1993-1996  and here I come with the edition
>for 1997.
>
>My question is:  what do I put in my 780 and 785 in the respective records.
> My inclination is to have the two records for the years we own link to
>each other (gap in dates included) so that our patrons don't get confused
>by a title that we don't even own.  That's a somewhat unsatisfying solution
>as the gaps will show in the dates.
>
>And now that I look closer at these two records I see that the title for
>1997 reverts back to the one used in the years 1989-1992 (our previous
>record): so I would have my 780/785s linking either  to items we don't have
>or to another record with the same title.  Does this sound strange or is it
>just the late Friday afternoon getting to me?   Suggestions?
>TIA
>
>Patricia Fogler
>Cataloger
>Air University Library
>Maxwell AFB
>pf@MAX1.au.af.mil
>
>(2)-----------------------
>Date:         Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:52:48 CDT
>From:         Fogler Patty <pfogler@MAX1.AU.AF.MIL>
>Subject:      links & gaps & doctored-up records.
>
><and now that I look closer at these two records I see that the title for
>1997 reverts back to the <one used in the years 1989-1992 (our previous
>record): so I would have my 780/785s linking <either  to items we don't
>have or to another record with the same title.  Does this sound strange <or
>is it just the late Friday afternoon getting to me?     Suggestions?
><TIA
>
><Patricia Fogler
>
>        Apologies for yet another post, it MUST be the late Friday
>afternoon....
>And looking yet even closer I see that the OCLC record on our previous
>title spans 1983-9999 and is a doctored-up version of  #11506133.  So the
>title hasn't reverted to a previous one.  I think this calls for scrapping
>a few records and starting over.  On Monday, I believe.  Any comments on
>the linking of the gapped titles would be very welcome.
>Have a good weekend everyone.
>
>P Fogler
>Weary Cataloger
>Air University Library
>pf@max1.au.af.mil