I have a small wrinkle to add to the People weekly discussion.  Christina
McCawley is correct that, unfortunately, changes in frequency words do
constitute major changes under both current rules and under the new
major/minor changes rules which LC and CONSER will put into effect
Dec. 1.  So, a new record will be created for the new title
People. However, because those assigning the ISSN back in the early 1970's
were following looser rules for the construction of the key title, the
key title for this serial has been People for all of this
time.  Therefore, although a new bibliographic record will be created, it
will carry the same ISSN and key title as are on the current
record.  This kind of discrepancy between number of ISSN and number of
records is one of the problems that it is hoped will be largely eliminated
by the international harmonization efforts that accompanied the
development of revised Chapter 12 and the revised ISSN and
ISBD(CR) standards.

A final note: the groups working on the new rules for major and minor
changes tried to include changes in frequency words among the minor
changes but ran into difficulties because those words can sometimes
distinguish between different kinds of administrative
publications.  Who knows?  Maybe this will be resolved in a future rule
revision??

Regina Reynolds
Head, National Serials Data Program (US ISSN Center)
rrey@loc.gov

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, McCawley, Christina wrote:

> According to Jean Hirons' presentation at NASIG:
>
> Frequency is a major change when it is added or dropped in the title,e.g.,
> Atlantic to Atlantic monthly is a major change.  So I assume People weekly
> to People would also be a major change and considered a new title.
>
> Christina McCawley
> West Chester University
> West Chester, PA 19383
> cmccawley@wcupa.edu
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dan Lester [SMTP:dan@riverofdata.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 11:51 AM
> > To:   SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
> > Subject:      Re: People weekly
> >
> > I'm not a cataloger, but that sure sounds like a title change to me.
> >
> > Maybe this could be worthy of one of title change awards....for a
> > title that has been changed but that "hasn't technically changed",
> > whatever in the world that might mean.   At least to me, it seems that
> > something has changed, or it hasn't, and it can't be both.  But maybe
> > I'm just not with the modern world.  Hmmmmm....how can it NOT change
> > and still be "fresh and not boring"?
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > dan
> >
> >
> > Tuesday, July 9, 2002, 5:29:04 PM, you wrote:
> >
> > KB> I just talked to their customer service and they said that they have
> > KB> dropped the "weekly" off of the name but haven't technically changed
> > the
> > KB> name.  The reason they gave for doing this was to keep everything
> > fresh
> > KB> and not boring.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Dan Lester, Data Wrangler  dan@RiverOfData.com 208-283-7711
> > 3577 East Pecan, Boise, Idaho  83716-7115 USA
> > www.riverofdata.com  www.gailndan.com  Stop Global Whining!
>

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