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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:11:17 -0500
From: Werner Lind <wlind@MAIL.BLUEFIELD.EDU>
Subject: Re: Journal of Marriage and Family (Lynne Stevens)
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I agree with you.  The option of a simple 740 note seems like the most practical
way to
proceed.  Few or none of your patrons will care about the presence or absence of
one
article in the periodical's title.

> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 12:44:57 -0500
> From: Lynne Stevens <lstevens@RMWC.EDU>
> Subject: Journal of Marriage and Family
>
> Another Monday, another name change.  In an effort which "better represents
> our mission," the National Council on Family Relations has changed Journal
> of Marriage and the Family to Journal of Marriage and Family.  I know you
> are all as excited as I am about this.  ISSN, publication pattern, and
> publisher have not changed.  One library (not DLC) has entered a marc record
> in OCLC for the new title.
>
> While I am usually very much in favor of using the absolutely-correct marc
> record, I wonder if, in this case, the use of a second record for such a
> similar title would be more confusing to our patrons than the correctness of
> it is worth.  One option would be to add a 740 note to the current record,
> so that both titles would be indexed in our ILS.
>
> Opinions and suggestions are anticipated and will be appreciated!
>
> Lynne N. Stevens
> Serials Coordinator
> Lipscomb Library
> Randolph-Macon Woman's College
> 2500 Rivermont Avenue
> Lynchburg, VA  24503
> 804 947-8133
> lstevens@rmwc.edu

--
Werner A. Lind
Reference Librarian
Bluefield College
3000 College Dr.
Bluefield, VA 24605

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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:14:49 -0500
From: Nancy Burns <nburns@PHOENIX.PRINCETON.EDU>
Subject: Re: Journal of Marriage and Family (Lynne Stevens)

        If they've only dropped the word "the", correctness demands no
title change.  From AACR2 21.2A1:

        "In general, consider a title proper to have changed if any word
OTHER THAN AN ARTICLE, preposition, or conjunction is added, deleted, or
changed ..." (emphasis mine)

        You need only add a 246, e.g.:
246     1 _     |i Issues for 2001-    have title: |a Journal of marriage
                and family

                                Nancy Burns
                                Cataloging Unit IV (Serials)
                                Princeton University Library
                                nburns@princeton.edu