Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 16:55:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Regina Reynolds <rrey@loc.gov>
Subject: Re: Addiction: new record for the supplement? -- Jonette Service

Jonette--

Supplements can be handled in a variety of ways, depending on the nature
of the supplement and on the treatment policies of a particular
library.  Likewise, within the ISSN Network, there can be found some
variation in ISSN assignment policies to supplements.  This ISSN appears
to have been assigned by the UK ISSN Centre, probably on the request of
the publisher.  While I would prefer that cataloging practices be
influenced by ISSN assignments and practices, and that because a separate
ISSN was assigned you should catalog the supplement separately, that is
not possible or desirable for all libraries in all cases.  I would
recommend first determining what your local policy regarding this kind
of supplement is and following it.  If there is no local guidance, then
you could follow the ISSN practice and create a separate record.

Regina Reynolds
Head, National Serials Data Program
U.S. ISSN Center
Library of Congress

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Addiction: new record for the supplement?
> From: Jonette Service <jonette.service@library.otago.ac.nz>
> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 13:10:01 +1200
> To: SERIALST@list.uvm.edu
>
> Can anyone on the list help me with a cataloguing problem please.
>
> We get the journal: Addiction:
> Addiction (Abingdon, England) ISSN 0965-2140, LCCN 93645978, OCLC 27367194.
>
> For several years it has issued supplements to most volumes. They have
> the volume numbering of the main journal but have their own numbering
> and paging sequence  within each volume. For example: "Volume 97
> Supplement 1 December 2002" (page 1-142) when there is also a vol. 97,
> no. 1 January 2002 (page 1-123) of the main journal. The title of these
> supplements is just: Addiction; the word Supplement appears to be part
> of the numbering.
>
> However, each supplement has a SICI and the ISSN in this is 1359-6357 -
> This is different from that of the main journal.
>
> Does this ISSN mean we should create a separate serial bibliographic
> record for the supplements?
>
> Jonette Service
> Collection Management - Serials Section
> University of Otago Library
> PO Box 56
> Dunedin
> New Zealand
> Phone 03 479 5234
> jonette.service@library.otago.ac.nz

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