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Date:         Tue, 23 Jan 2001 14:33:57 -0800
From:         Ryan Finnerty <Ryan@LIBRARY.UCSD.EDU>
Subject:      Re: ISSN for online serial in single record approach

When doing the single record approach for cataloging ejournals, the
electronic ISSN should go in the $x of the 776 field.  However, the 776
field does not just have to be a note field; with most online catalogs,
libraries can index this field however they like and have it display to
the public with whatever display labels they feel would best convey the
meaning of this field as it is used in their catalogs.

At UCSD we use the Innovative software for our online catalog and we index
the $x of the 776 in our standard number index.  We just added it to this
index last year, Innovative is pretty flexible about what they will allow
you to index.

Ryan Finnerty
Serials & Electronic Resources Cataloger
Geisel Library
University of California, San Diego
<Ryan@LIBRARY.UCSD.EDU>

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Date:         Tue, 23 Jan 2001 14:37:08 -0800
From:         Stefanie Wittenbach <stefw@POP.UCR.EDU>
Subject:      Re: ISSN for online serial in single record approach

         We use the single record approach here at the University of
California, so I use a second 022 field and put (online) following the
ISSN number.  This is somewhat in keeping with a set record that has
separate ISBN numbers for each volume in the set and the record has
multiple 020 fields with the volume number in parentheses following the
specific ISBN.  Stefanie

Stefanie Wittenbach
Head of Acquisitions
University Library
University of California, Riverside
P.O. Box 5900
Riverside, CA  92517-5900
909/787-2805  909/787-3720 fax
stefw@pop.ucr.edu

At 05:10 PM 1/23/2001 -0500, Biserka Mrzljak  wrote:
>I am unable to find any explanation for the ISSN of an online version of
>its print equivalent, in the single record approach, in order to be
>retrievable. The only place that the ISSN is recorded is in 776 tag,
>however, this field is a note and not an access entry, and it is
>associated with the 1st indicator 1, i.e., it is not displayable, as
>there is no entry to link it to.
>
>O22, ISSN, should be associated only with a unique serial title,
>however, the online equivalents often carry a different ISSN of their
>print counterparts.
>
>There are two conflicting pieces of information in:
>
>USMARC21: the field 022 is annotated as (R), i.e., repeatable, [page
>updated Feb. 1999];
>
>CONSER: the field 022 is annotated as (NR), non repeatable [page updated
>1996]
>
>Any comment on this would be appreciated.
>
>Biserka Mrzljak
>Cataloguing Liaison Librarian for Serials
>Technical Services
>University of Western Ontario Libraries
>tel. 519 661-2111 tel. 84829
><bmrzljak@LIB.UWO.CA>