Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 10:41:47 -0500 (CDT)
From: Steve Oberg <so67@MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject: serial uniform title question

**This message has been cross-posted to SERIALST and AUTOCAT.  Please
excuse the duplication.**

Recently I was working on a title: Human Rights Watch/Africa, a newsletter
published by a corporate body of the same name (formerly known as Africa
Watch Committee).  I found a CONSER record for a related publication, Human
Rights Watch/Americas, OCLC #30486545, LCN 94-643688, ISSN 1077-6710, that
showed a uniform title (130) was created as: Human Rights Watch/Americas
(Newsletter), with a 245 of: Human Rights Watch/Americas :#b[newsletter].

As far as I can see, there is no conflict with any other serial title, so I
am unclear as to why a uniform title was created.  Note that the serial title
is the same as the corporate body, thus explaining the use of #b[newsletter]
according to LCRI 12.1E1.  I also realize that a uniform title should be
created when a *series* title is identical to a corporate body name,
according to LCRI 25.5B.  However, this is cataloged as a serial, not a
series.

Can anyone provide some ideas as to why this was done, and if it is correct?

Steve

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