CONSER Editing Guide users:

While others ponder grander schemes for cataloging
simplification, CONSER is doing its part in a small way.  For
several years there has been a discrepancy in practice between
monograph and serials cataloging with regard to spacing.
Specifically, the CONSER practice of requiring that two spaces be
input in uniform title qualifiers and links differs from
the guidelines used to create authority records.  The two spaces
were a holdover from card printing days and are no longer
necessary.  From now on, input just one space between corporate
hierarchies used in uniform title qualifiers or subfield "a" of a
linking field, and between common and part titles in links.

The following CEG pages are affected:  130, p. 2, editing
instruction no. 5; Links, p. 3, editing instruction no. 2; Links,
p. 7, subfield a.  Please edit your copy for use until the new
CEG is issued in 1994.

Jean Hirons
Serial Record Division
Library of Congress
hirons@mail.loc.gov