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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1994 10:06:58 +22303754
From: Christine Hulse <C.Hulse@NLA.GOV.AU>

Mitch,

Your agreement with my comments on "cataloguer's judgment" is encouraging
even though in some ways this maybe a "philosophical dream".

Fortunately in the National Library of Australia we are happy to conform
to the LC practice of qualifying by place whenever possible as the LCRI of
25.5B allows flexibility in using other qualifiers when they are more
appropriate.  We have a large serials collection (Ca. 90,000 current
titles) and serials cataloguers work closely with processing staff ("check
in clerks").  I am not aware of any complaints in using place as a
qualifier.  As for the patrons I feel they would be more likely to search
by the body.

Your logic, in suggesting the use of corporate body as a qualifier and
creating a uniform title added entry if the body changes, puzzles me. This
appears to go against the concept of successive entry cataloguing and
seems to complicate rather than clarify the issue.

Regards

Chris Hulse
Serials Cataloguer
National Library of Australia