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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:39:16 -0500
From: Paula Coulthard <Paula.Coulthard@UNI.EDU>
Subject: Health, United States Chartbook.

Greetings!

We have been receiving the title "Health, United States" and the
accompanying Chartbooks: Health United States .... Chartbook

Since 1996/97, the main volume of Health, United States has been published
with a theme.  The Chartbook echos this theme, so "Health, United States,
1996-97" emphasized Injury, the Chartbook having the title, Health United
States 1996-97 Injury Chartbook.  Every year the theme changes and the
accompanying Chartbook also changes.

The cataloging for the main piece carries a note:
Each issue emphasiaes a different health-related topic, sometimes
reflected in a distinctive subtitle (e.g. 1998 issue: Health, United
States: with socioeconomic status and health chartbook).

But the serial record for the Chartbook was closed with the 1995 issue and
785 16 fields are being used to say it split into the different
Chartbooks, each which was issued in a different year!

785 16  |t Health, United States. Injury chartbook (the 1996-97 chartbook)
785 16  |t Health, United States. Socioeconomic status and health
chartbook (the 1998 chartbook)
785 16  |t Health, United States. Health and aging chartbook (the 1999
chartbook)

This treatment does not make any sense to me.  Each thematic chartbook now
has its own serial record, open.  IMHO if these are to be cataloged on
separate records, they should be monographs.  OCLC has little to offer in
the way of monographic cataloging, unless I do each year as a set, and
that varies.

Can the original "Chartbook" record by re-opened with a note about the
thematic titles beginning in 1996-97? and accompanying 246 titles?  Or
since it is part of |p of the 245, does it really need to be closed?

If anyone else has time to look this title over, I would like to know how
you are handling this title, please give me some advice.

Thanks,

Paula Coulthard
Library Assistant IV, Cataloging
Rod Library
UNI, Cedar Falls, IA  50613