Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 08:06:19 -0800
From: Irma Nicola <INicola@APU.EDU>
Subject: Re: SERIALST Digest - 7 Nov 2001 to 8 Nov 2001 (#2001-208)

We have similar situation here, creating a departmentally relevant listing
of titles in the department's area of academics.  I don't know if it is
working...I would like some kind of suggestions myself.

ART, BUSINESS, COMMUNICATION, COMPUTER SCIENCE, EDUCATION, GENERAL INTEREST,
GLOBAL STUDIES, HISTORY, LIBRARY, LITERATURE, MUSIC, NEWS AND PINION,
NURSING, PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICAL THERAPY, POLITICAL SCIENCE, PSYCHOLOGY,
RELIGION, SCIENCE, AND MATH, SOCOIAL WORK, SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY,
SPORTS AND RECREATION.

Irma H. Nicola
Serials Coordinator
Azusa Pacific University
901 E. Alosta Ave.
Azusa, California 91702
John 1:4
inicola@apu.edu
626-815-6000 ext 5258

Original message:

Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 03:02:33 +0800
From: liu liu <liuliu@USA.COM>
Subject: I need help - categorizing periodicals

Hi,

    For statistical purposes, I was told to assign a broad subject category
to each periodical in our collection, out of 24 subject categories: History,
Political Sciences, sociology, Business, etc. I have also created a
newspaper category to accommodate  newspapers which cannot be put into any
subject categories.
My problem is with periodicals like Time and Newsweek?  The OCLC number is
AP2 - which is not helpful at all.  Which category, do you think, is the
closest to these news-magazines?  And also, I am undecided whether to class
all newspapers into newspaper category irrespective of their contents, e.g.
Wall Street Journal (to Newspaper), or should I class newspapers according
to their subject (Wall Street Journal to Business) and only include
newspapers that do not fit into any categories into newspaper category?

There is not a category called multi-disciplinary, nor am I allowed to use
categories other than these 25 categories.

Please give me suggestions so that I can do the best I can and make my work
more acceptable out of this mess.

Thanks.

Liu Liu

P.S. The 24 subject categories are:
Agriculture, Anthropology, Art, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Computer
Science, Education, Engineering, Geography, History, Language & Literature,
Law, Library Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Music, Performing Arts,
Philosophy & Religion, Physical Education, Physical Sciences, Political
Sciences, Psychology, Sociology.
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