About two seconds after hitting the "send" button, I realized the message
below is worded misleadingly.  What I meant is I believe that this type of
change (from full form to acronym, or vice versa, even if it constitutes
the entire title) qualifies as a minor change.  Didn't mean to imply that
it is the only category of minor change.

Kathryn

>Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 18:17:13 -0400
>To: "SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum" <SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU>
>From: Kathryn Wesley <kwesley@clemson.edu>
>Subject: Re: Organic Gardening: title change?  again?
>
>Anna,
>
>I took the SCCTP Advanced Serials Cataloging Workshop a couple of weeks
>ago.  I believe this qualifies as a minor change (change of title from
>full form to acronym, or vice versa, even if it is the entire title), and
>should not require the creation of a new record.  You should be able to
>handle this with a note:
>
>246 1_ $i Issues for <May/June 2003-   > called: $a Organic gardening
>
>Yippee!
>
>Kathryn Wesley
>Serials Cataloger
>Clemson University
>
>At 10:00 AM 6/3/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>>I have in my hands the May/June 2003 and July/August 2003 issues of
>>Organic Gardening.  That's right, the journal that has gone from "Organic
>>Gardening" to "Organic Gardening and Farming" to "Organic Gardening" to
>>"Rodale's Organic Gardening" to "Organic Gardening" to "OG".  There is a
>>record in OCLC (51989049) for the most recent title change, if it is a
>>title change rather than just a two-issue fluke; however, it was created
>>by the San Francisco Public Library and has not yet had the blessing of
>>the Library of Congress, nor has the old record (47358131) been updated
>>to reflect the title change.  Do I use it?  Do I wait a while longer for
>>someone else to sprinkle holy water on it?
>>
>>These are the things one ponders on a rainy Tuesday morning.
>>
>>Anna Creech, MLS
>>Serials/Database Cataloger
>>Eastern Kentucky University
>>(859) 622-3062
>>
>>"I worry more about poor quality of information online, and students'
>>lack of skills for evaluating information, than I worry about frequently
>>discussed evils like pornography."
>>     --University of Washington Internet researcher Malcom Parks