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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 14:25:20 -0600
From: "Markham, Scott C." <SCMarkham@MPLS.LIB.MN.US>
Subject: Y2K Cataloging question

Greetings,

I am sending this question out to serial catalogers who use OCLC.

This is a "date" question regarding annuals for which we do not receive
every year's issue.  The Library owns issues from the late 1990s and now has
received the 2000 issue with a new title.  There is no OCLC copy for the new
title, so I will create an original record.  However, I don't know when the
title changed.  If I have the 1997 issue, I know the new title came in 1998,
1999, or 2000.  (I realalize it could have changed each year, but linking
fields are not the question.)

So on the OCLC record, in the fixed fields, do I record:  Dates:
uuuu,9999. ?

The Bibliographic Formats and Standards. 2nd ed. p. FF21 says I may infer
the millennium, but that was printed before Y2K.

I believe the structure Dates: uuuu,9999 would be correct, but before I do
this I am looking for either confirmation or to be told what a dumb idea
this is.

So if I am on track, or totally off,  please respond to me at:
scmarkahm@mpls.lib.mn.us.

Thank you,

Scott C. Markham
mailto:scmarkham@mpls.lib.mn.us
scmarkham@mpls.lib.mn.us
Minneapolis Public Library
300 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, MN 55401
612-630-6430

p.s.  Please don't hate me for using the term Y2K :)