Re: Periodical Issues as Monographs (John Lucas) ERCELAA@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu 12 Mar 1999 19:46 UTC
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 11:37:54 -0600 From: John Lucas <jlucas@rowland.umsmed.edu> Subject: Re: Periodical Issues as Monographs (John Radencich) John: I think your intentions are very good. You wish to maximize use of your periodicals. However, I feel there are a couple of things for your consideration. You analyze them and put them in your "book" general collection. 1. If these titles are indexed in some of your available electronic databases, how are they being cited? By the title of the volume/issue title OR the title of the specific article? Will the patron, be able to find the title of the volume on your current on-line system with only the title of the article? (Searching table of contents. 505 notes) 2. Will / Can your Cataloging Dept. handle the extra work in adding full bibliographic records for each volume / issue? (Some may have bib records in a utility like OCLC for volumes (ie) Annals of NY. Acad. of Sci. . However titles like Medical clinics of N.A. where each issue has a title may be hit or miss) We currently DO not separately list volumes or issues that have specific titles. This would overload our "book" collection and in any weeding project, some volumes may be removed without realizing it. (is this bad? I don't know) We would like to eventually have records for some of the titles where the complete Volume has a title, but we would still shelve it as a "journal" (Medical Libraries generally do not attach a distinctive call number [like LC] to journals, although NLM journal call numbers exist. All are W 1) There is my 2 cents. (currently worth 1.5 cents) John Lucas Serials Librarian University of Mississippi Medical Center 2500 North State St Jackson, MS 39216-4505 (PH) (601) 984-1277 >>> <ERCELAA@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu> 03/12 8:37 AM >>> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 08:20:54 -0500 From: John Radencich <radencic@FIU.EDU> Subject: Periodical Issues as Monographs Autocat and Serialst members: Our library is investigating the possibility of analyzing periodicals with issues that also have distinctive titles. The issues would be kept separately on our general collection shelves so they can circulate, rather than be kept bound together in the periodicals area. Whether they have the same call number or numbered separately is not an issue at the moment since the separate issues can be analyzed and circulated either way. Do other libraries do this? Who in your library makes the decision to do this? (Presumably this would be done on a case by case basis.) What about time spent, both in regards to the cataloging, physically preparing each issue to go on the circulating stacks, and so on? I have looked through the Autocat archives and haven't found anything that I think address this specific issue (though I have found plenty about cataloging "special issues" and so on). This is not to say there may not be messages dealing with this specific question. I just haven't found them as yet. Thank you for any replies you make on this subject. John Radencich Library-Cataloging Dept. Florida International University Miami, Florida 33199 305-348-3785 radencic@fiu.edu