On Wed, 20 Mar 91 11:04:00 CST Margaret Prentice Hecker said:
>  I am interested in hearing from other libraries about how they handle
>  the display situation for complex 780 and 785 fields of serial records.
>  KSU Libraries has NOTIS version 4.6.

At the University of Vermont, we also have NOTIS 4.6 and have encountered
the same phenomena in regard to the indicators of the 780 and 785 linking
entry fields:

>  On NOTIS, the 780 00 and 785 00 work fine; "Continues:" and "Continued
>  by:" notes are automatically displayed by the system.
>
>  However, we discovered that if the indicators "01" through "07" (or "08")
>  for 780s and 785s are used, the relationship notes are not displayed. In
>  such cases, we change the lst indicator to "1" and input 580 note(s) on
>  the bibliographic record.

In current cataloging procedures, we're doing exactly what you're doing
at KSU.  We use 78x 00 for straightforward continued and continued by
notes.  For more complicated linking entries (2 or more for a given 78x)
we use 78x 1x and a 580 note to describe the relationship(s)/link(s)
in a note.  Presumably the first indicator "1" will suppress 78x notes from
displaying (thus producing 2 redundant notes in the OPAC)
if NOTIS should get first indicator "0" up and running
as a note-generating indicator in all instances in future software releases.

      Birdie MacLennan, Serials Cataloger
      Bailey/Howe Library, University of Vermont