Looking at records for Paris Match, I came across a latest entry record
which includes a lot of confusing stuff, #30745023. A lot of the confusion
may have begun with the earlier title varying; maybe also, there was a
hesitancy to treat it as a title change because they were moving away from
latest entry? (I wasn't a serials cataloger then, but I had a student aide
job where all I did was seek out title changes in NST (Ugh!).
Dana, I think it's good that you bring this up. I worked on a retrospective
cataloging project and we found real errors that had stood uncontradicted
for over a quarter of a century. We also were able to find all kinds of
title changes that had been missed between the last date given in the last 247
and what was given in the 245. Try that sometime. It really is impossible on
those old records to tell when the title in the 245 *started* -- you really
only know up to the last date of the last title change but you can't tell
what number or date was on the *first* piece of the latest title.
I hope someone from CONSER who owns this title will take
up the burden of breaking it down. Sometimes you have to wait, as my trainer
said, "until you see the whites of its eyes". I'm posting this to the list
because I found that little defect very troublesome, and I suspect others may
at some time be faced with this type of problem, too. New York Public,
you deserve accolades, because your photographed card catalog often had the
serial main card which gave the issues checked in, with the right title, so you
could sometimes verify it quite nicely, with 99.44% chance of being "right"!
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