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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 14:44:51 -0400
From: Naomi K. Young <Naomi.Young@NAU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Title page for serials (Teresa Grimm)

At 11:24 AM 7/29/97 -0400, you wrote:

>Thanks to all that helped with my question last week regarding
>MIT's Technology Review.  AACR2 stipulates that the prescibed
>source of information regarding a title of a serial is the title page.

>What defines the title page of a serial?
        "Title page" is hardly ever a helpful idea for serials.  A title
page for a serial would look just like a title page for a book.
Relatively few serials have them, in my experience.

> Is it the front cover?
        No, that's just the cover.

> Is it the table of contents page?
        No, that is just the table of contents page.

> Is it the page that contains the small box with subscription information
and  the title accompanied with
>the ISSN number?  (I would also like to know the official name of
>this section with the ISSN number.)
        No, this box is called the masthead.

        According to AACR2R, rule 12.0B1, when a serial doesn't have a
title page, we can use any of the following sources as a substitute in
this order of preference: (comments in parentheses are mine):

        analytical title page, cover, caption (think of a newsletter, with
the title at the top of the page, and articles underneath--the little area
with the title is the caption), masthead, editiorial pages (title of
contents page would be considered here, I believe), colophon, and other
pages.

>MIT's Technology Review
>still refers to itself as Technology Review in this small section
>with the subscription information and ISSN number.

        Yes, they do -- but because the cover title did change, and the cover
takes precedence, the title can be considered to have changed.  At least
they took 100 years to do this!

> Once again
>thanks in advance to all that offer their help as I try to learn this
>complicated serials business.  (Do you think I should ask for a
>raise yet?)
>
        By all means ask --and if you get it, let us know, so we can ask
as well! :)

Hope this was helpful,

Naomi Young
Serials Catalog Librarian
Northern Arizona University
Naomi.Young@nau.edu