Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 15:12:08 -0600
From: "MD_Buddy (Buddy Pennington)" <MD_Buddy@KCLIBRARY.ORG>
Subject: Cataloging the Standard and Poor's Stock Guide....

Hi guys,

I was taking a look at our holdings for the Standard and Poor's stock guides
and frankly I am a bit stumped.  Okay, really stumped.  In our stacks I
found holdings for the S&P Security Owner's Stock Guide from January 1950 to
October 1999.  I then noticed that they dropped the "Security Owner's" part
from the the title and it now says Standard and Poor's Stock Guide.  The
ISSN appears to be 0038-9412, atleast through December of 2000 (I could not
find the ISSN on the January 2001 issue!).  So it appears that there should
be two records for this title because of the name change.

When I looked in OCLC I find two records but it looks really strange.  The
record for the Security Owner's Stock Guide (OCLC #1645167) is still open so
is this something that is still being published?  The record for the stock
guide (OCLC #3633965) has a different ISSN (0737-4135).  Another record
(OCLC #43016162) looks better (same ISSN), but that record says it begins
July, 1999 when the "Security Owner's" part of the title did not disappear
until November, 1999.

Can you serials catalogers help me out? Please?

Buddy Pennington
Kansas City Public Library - Main
Document Delivery Librarian
MD_buddy@kclibrary.org
816-701-3552