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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 16:30:55 EST
From: CFTREMPE@hawk.syr.edu
Subject: Re: Records for Different Formats (Ed Kownslar)

Syracuse University is a NOTIS library and at the time we transferred to
NOTIS, we made the decision to have one bibliographic record and separate
copy statements for paper, microfilm and/or microfiche.  We are aware that
this decision violates current cataloguing practice, but believe it helps
our users by consolidating all holdings information on one record. For
many popular titles we have a mixture of bound volumes and microfilm
and/or fiche. We use the paper bibliographic record and add 533-fields
beginning Microfilm copy: or Microfiche copy: for the descriptive data for
the microform. We do not add |h in the 245., or add title tracings
containing |h

We do, however, maintain separate records for electronic formats.

Charles Tremper
Head, serials Unit
Syracuse University Library