Pre-Workshop Exercises from the SCCTP Basic Serials Cataloging Workshop (Library of Congress)

SCCTP

Basic Serials Cataloging Workshop

Please print out the following exercises and complete as many of as you can. The purpose of these exercises is to help you determine what areas of serials cataloging you may want to pay particular attention to during the workshop.

Bring the completed exercises and any questions you may have with you to the workshop to facilitate discussion about the examples during the scheduled sessions.

Please also note that bibliographic information used in these exercises may have been altered to illustrate various points of serials cataloging practice.

Part A: Is It a Serial?

Give as many reasons as you think applicable in each case below.

Example 1:

Cover:	Today's Education The Journal of the National Education Association

Contents page:	The Annual of the National Education Association 1982-83 Volume 71, Number 3 Today's Education

Verso of contents page:	Published once a year by ... (ISSN) 0271-3573

Is this a serial? Circle one: Yes No

Why?

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Example 2:

It is known that the following is issued annually.

CD-ROM label:	Who's Who in Canadian Business
	17th Edition 1997

	ISSN 1209-8299

Is this a serial? Circle one: Yes No

Why?

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Example 3:

Title page 1:	Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry

Title page 2:	Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry

Is this a serial? Circle one: Yes No

Why?

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Example 4:

Title page:	Trends in Cognitive Sciences


	REFERENCE EDITION
	Volume 1
	1997
	Elsevier Science

Is this a serial? Circle one: Yes No

Why?

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Example 5:

It is known that the 3rd edition was published in 1989, the 4th edition in 1992, and the 5th edition in 1998.

Title page:	Directory of Multinationals


	5th Edition

Is this a serial? Circle one: Yes No

Why?

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Example 6:

Title page:	Expenditures on Children by Families
	1997 Annual Report

	UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
	Miscellaneous Publication Number 1528-1997

Is this a serial? Circle one: Yes No

Why?

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Part B: Is A New Record Required?

Example 1:

Title 1:	Marriage and divorce statistics
New issue:	Marriage, divorce and adoption statistics

Would you create a new record? Circle one: Yes No

Why?

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Example 2:

Title 1:	Organic chemistry
New issue:	Organic chemistry review

Would you create a new record? Circle one: Yes No

Why?

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Example 3:

Title 1:	Annual report of the President's Commission on Children for 2002
New issue:	President's Commission on Children annual report 2003

Would you create a new record? Circle on: Yes No

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Example 4:

Title 1:	Doing Business in the Czech and Slovak Republics
New issue:	Doing Business in the Czech Republic

Would you create a new record? Circle one: Yes No

Why?

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Example 5:

Title 1:

STATISTIQUES ÉPIDÉMIOLOGIQUES
ET DÉMOGRAPHIQUES ANNUELLES

ANNUAL EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND VITAL STATISTICS

New issue:

ANNUAL EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND VITAL STATISTICS

STATISTIQUES ÉPIDÉMIOLOGIQUES
ET DÉMOGRAPHIQUES ANNUELLES

Would you create a new record? Circle one: Yes No

Why?

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Example 6:

Title 1:	Architectural Review Volume 17, April 1910
New issue:	Architectural Review New Series, Volume 1, January 1912

Would you create a new record? Circle one: Yes No

Why?

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Example 7:

Title 1 record:	022 ISSN 0018-2370 130 Historian (Kingston, R.I.) 245 The Historian.
New issue:	The Historian ISSN 0018-2370 Now published: Allentown, PA

Would you create a new record? Circle one: Yes No

Why?

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Part C: Closing Out and Linking Records

Edit the cataloging data in the abbreviated forms given below. Add or change any data as appropriate.

Vol. 10, No. 2, 1997 issue cover:	African Languages and Cultures

Vol. 11, No. 1, June 1998 issue cover:	Journal of African Cultural Studies

Old title:

Fixed Field:

Publication Status: c

Dates: 1988, _______

245 00 $a African languages and cultures.

260 -- $a London : $b School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London, $c c1988-

310 $a Semiannual

362 0- $a Vol. 1, no. 1-____________

785 00 _________________________________________________

New title:

Fixed Field:

Publication Status: ________

Dates: ________, _______

245 00 $a Journal of African cultural studies.

260 -- $a London : $b School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London

310 $a Semiannual

362 1 $a __________________________

780 00 _________________________________________________

Part D: Selecting and Editing Copy

Identify the three or four most important match points between the copy and the bibliographic information provided below.

Page 1:

The caption reads: The Ludwig von Mises Institute The Free Market

Bottom of page [1]: Volume 17 Number 2 February 1999

Caption:

Copy:

Type a   ELvl    Srce d  GPub     Ctrl    Lang eng

BLvl s   Form    Conf 0  Freq m   MRec    Ctry alu

S/L  0   Orig    EntW    Regl r   Alph a

Desc a   SrTp p  Cont    DtSt c   Dates 1983,9999

010  --  $a sn88021859

040  --  $a AAA $c AAA $d IUL $d NSD $d NST $d IUL $d NST

012  --  $i 8806 $l 1

022  0-  $a 1051-4333 $2 1

042  --  $a lcd $a nsdp

082  10  $a 330 $2 11

050  14  $a HD82 $b .F725

210  0-  $a Free mark.

222  -4  $a The Free market

245  04  $a The Free market.

260  --  $a Auburn, Ala. : $b Ludwig von Mises Institute of Auburn University, $c 1983-

265  --  $a Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn University, Auburn, Ala. 36849

300  --  $a v. : $b ill., ports. ; $c 28 cm.

310  --  $a Monthly, $b Feb. 1987-

321  --  $a Quarterly, $b 1983-

362  0-  $a Vol. 1, no. 1 (fall 1983)-

500  --  $a Title from caption.

650  -0  $a Economic policy $v Periodicals.

650  -0  $a Free trade $v Periodicals.

650  -0  $a Supply and demand $v Periodicals.

650  -0  $a Capitalism $v Periodicals.

710  2-  $a Ludwig Von Mises Institute.

850  --  $a AAP $a ArU $a InU $a KU-S

936  --  $a Dec. 1987 LIC

List the most important match points:

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Part E: Cataloging Data

Example 1:

Examine the bibliographic information in the following example, determine the chief source of information, and then fill in as much of the cataloging data, tags, indicators and subfields in the MARC serials format as possible based on the information provided. Please note that not all possible fields have been used. Supply information only for the fields indicated and do not worry about authorized forms for headings.

Cover of: Vol. 14, No. 3 Dec., 1998:

First page (p. 201) is a table of contents for December 1998 Vol. 14, No. 3:

Verso of page 201:

Top of page: P.O. Box 1629, Knoxville, TN 37901-1629.

Bottom: Tennessee Ancestors (ISSN 0882-0635) is published triannually by the East Tennessee Historical Society and is distributed to members of the Society

OCLC 008 Mask:

Type a    ELvl    Srce    GPub    Ctrl    Lang

Blvl s    Form    Conf ■  Freq ■  MRec    Ctry

S/L  __   Orig ■  EntW    Regl ■  Alph

Desc __   SrTp __ Cont    DtSt __ Dates_____,_____,

022 ________________________________

245 ____ ________________________________________________

246 ____ ________________________________________________

260 ____ ________________________________________________

310 ____ ________________________________________________

362 ____ ________________________________________________

5__ ____ ________________________________________________

5__ ____ ________________________________________________

5__ ____ ________________________________________________

7__ ____ ________________________________________________

7__ ____ ________________________________________________

7__ ____ ________________________________________________

Example 2

Edit the cataloging copy supplied below to account for the online version.

Journal home page at: http://www.gmu.edu/org/hcr/

WELCOME TO THE HISPANIC CULTURE REVIEW We are

happy to present the Web edition of our three latest issues of the Hispanic Culture

Review, a review published one or two times a year by students of George Mason

University. Its many issues have introduced essays, fiction and poetry written

in English or Spanish focusing on topics related to the Hispanic world. We hope

that you will enjoy our on-line issues and we are looking forward to your correspondence.

Make checks or money orders payable to: Hispanic Culture Review and mail to: Hispanic

Culture Review George Mason University c/o Department of Modern and Classical

Languages Mail Stop $3E5 Fairfax, VA. 22030 U.S.A

Earliest online issue (viewed February 9, 1999):

Cataloging copy for the print version:

Type a   ELvl I  Srce d   GPub     Ctrl    Lang eng

BLvl s   Form    Conf ■   Freq  ■  MRec    Ctry vau

S/L  0   Orig ■  EntW     Regl  ■  Alph

Desc a   SrTp p  Cont     DtSt  c  Dates 199u,9999

041 -- $a eng $a spa

042 -- $a lcd

090 -- $a PS508.H57 $b H57

245 00 $a Hispanic culture review.

260 -- $a Fairfax, Va. : $b George Mason University

310 -- $a Semiannual

500 -- $a Description based on: Vol. 1, no. 2 (spring 1991); title from title page.

546 -- $a English and Spanish.

650 -0 $a American literature $x Hispanic American authors $v Periodicals.

650 -0 $a Hispanic American literature (Spanish) $v Periodicals.

710 2- $a George Mason University.

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