Steve and all
I will need to check some documents and examples when I return to work  (I
am in Stockholm for an ISSN directors meeting).  I think I remember some
training examples, etc. of this sort of situation and that Steve is
correct.  I am inclined at this moment to consider this major change.  If
so, a new ISSN would be assigned.

Regina

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Steven C Shadle wrote:

> Early on in implementation of 2002 revision, questions like this came up.  A strict interpretation of the rules would imply this is not a major change (deletion of issuing body).  However, the NSH opinion of myself and others (including Jean Hirons) in this case (where an issuing body/publisher was part of the title proper and the it was dropped at the same time the issuing body/publisher changed), you really are talking about a major change.
>
> Any possibility we can get an new ISSN for the title change?
>
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> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Joe Orth wrote:
>
> > "Want's federal-state court directory" OCLC # 10296033 is a CONSER blessed
> > record.  With the 2007 edition of this title, it is now no longer
> > published by Want's but by CQ Press and the title is "Federal-state court
> > directory" and the cover clearly says "formerly Want's federal-state court
> > directory."  For some time, there has been a variant title for this
> > shorter title to allow searching without the publisher's name.
> >
> > Per 21.2C2a in AACR2 "Consider as a major change in title proper a change
> > in a corporate body name given anywhere in the title if it is a different
> > corporate body." I'm not sure this counts, since the new corporate body is
> > not present in the title, just having the old corporate body dropped.
> > However, this is a change in the first 5 words. If it were the same
> > corporate body, I'd look at 21.2C2b iii - deletion of name of same
> > corporate body is a minor change.  Also, there is a statement: "In case of
> > doubt, consider the change to be a minor change."
> >
> > In the LCRIs, under 21.2C2 - "In applying category b)iii), if the change
> > is in the name of a body that is part of the title proper and the change
> > requires the creation of a new heading for the body, consider such a
> > change to be a major change."  I got the feeling this was more for the
> > presence of a corporate body, not the deletion of the old corporate body.
> >
> > I'm thinking this is a major change, however, I'm not very experienced in
> > this, so I'd like someone with some experience to give me some
> > confirmation.  Any help out there?
> >
>

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