My library has been dealing with the IEE --> IET change for a few
months now. When they were still IEE and added "IEE" to the covers,
they looked very similar to the way they look now, and it was
ambiguous as to whether IEE was to be considered part of the title.

As proof of this ambiguity, some of the OCLC copy we used entered the
journal under IEE ... (in the 245). For those titles we have had to
create new records because IEE --> IET does reflect a change in name
of the issuing corporate body. Other OCLC copy we used did not enter
the title under IEE, and had 246 entries for the "IEE ..." variant
(as with "Manufacturing engineer"). For those, we've added another
246 for the "IET ..." variant and a 710 for the new name of the corporate body.

All of the IEE/IET print journals I've worked on look essentially the
same. The publisher is consistent in their ambiguous presentation!
Unfortunately, in my library's catalog, this is a case where
cataloging is doing a disservice by being inconsistent. However, the
economics of my library demand that we accept the cataloging copy
that is available on the day we need it. Perhaps if we'd had a stack
of IEE/IET journals on the same day, we could have attempted some
consistency, but naturally, they trickled in one at time.

Kay Teel
Serials Catalog Librarian and Cataloger for the Arts
Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources
Phone: (650) 724-7346
kteel@stanford.edu