Date:         Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:52:18 -0500
From:         Frieda Rosenberg <friedat@EMAIL.UNC.EDU>
Organization: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library
Subject:      Re: Combined issues coding question (Lanie P. Williamson)

Lanie,
   Since you mention 853, I assume you are using MARC21 Format for
Holdings Data, though I don't know in which system.
   A recent MARC Proposal 2002-05, recommends defining "spanned
enumeration" to match the intervals of "spanned chronology" already
available in subfield y.  As I understand it, you tried a pattern with
combined chronology and it did not work for you, although the proposal
seems to indicate that most systems infer from combined chronology that
enumeration is also combined.  (Those who have prediction in their
current systems can contradict this; I am inferring from the wording in
the proposal.)

If you have MFHD, did you try something like this?
853 20   $8 ...  $a no. $i(year) $j (month) $w b $x 06 $y
pm05/06,07/08,09/10,11/12,01/02,03/04

Does this give the result  no.1 May/June,  no.2 July/Aug.....? or no.
1/2, etc.?

I imagine that your vendor is your best source of information; if any
pattern doesn't predict correctly, I would ask the vendor.  But it may
well be that until the proposed "enumeration codes" are available, you
will have to alter the checked-in issues manually.

If you wish, I can ask some other pattern experts for their help.  You
might want to look at the proposal on http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc.
Frieda

Frieda Rosenberg <friedat@EMAIL.UNC.EDU>
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 Lanie P. Williamson <lpwilli1@SAMFORD.EDU> wrote:

> I am looking for some assistance on coding the 853 field
> for combined issue numbers. Can that be done? The title I'm
> working on comes out as 6 times a year in combined issues:
> no.1-2, May/June; no.3-4, July/Aug; no.5-6, Sept/Oct;
> no.7-8, Nov/Dec; no.9-10, Jan/Feb; no.11-12, Mar/Apr.
>
> I have been able to make the months combine, but not the
> issues.  Any suggestions would be welcome.  Thanks!
>
> -----------------------------------------
> Lanie Williamson, Serials Librarian
> Law Library, Samford University
> 800 Lakeshore Drive
> Birmingham, AL 35229
> lpwilli1@samford.edu
> 205-726-2714