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Subject: Re: Change of Publisher -- Liu Liu
   Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 17:04:57 EDT
   From: Enrique Gildemeister <RGildem550@aol.com>

Liu,

You don't close out a serial record just because of a change in
publisher,
except if you have a change in corporate body in the 110 field or a
change in
corporate body qualifier in a 130 (uniform title) field.  Many serials
catalogers deplore the practice, but this how it stands:  you base the
bibliographic description on the first  issue.  Variations in commercial

publisher go in a 500 note, and variations in issuing body go in a 550.
What
this does is obscure the relationship of current issues to the beginning
of
publication, unless you rely heavily for clarification on the note area,

which is frequently suppressed by heads of systems as "the more
(unnecessary)
bibliographic info. you provide, the more you confuse the patron".  In
your
example you would put the information about a change in publisher in a
note,
even though other member libraries don't own the issues.  We catalog not
just
issues held, but the totality of a serial.  Notes specific to libraries'

holdings always go in the holdings record.

Hope this helps.

Rick Gildemeister
RGildem550@aol.com