Joe,
    On OCLC, manuscript serials would be cataloged not as mixed
materials, but as books. (Mixed materials can only be collections
organized around a person or body.) With the Books format, you are not
allowed to input a 362--it will not validate.  With the serials
format, you are not allowed a Type t--it will not validate.  If not
exclusions, they are at least complications which require much labor
to work around.   Our solution is to ignore manuscript coding until we
get further information.

Regards,
Frieda Rosenberg, UNC-CH
<friedat@EMAIL.UNC.EDU>

On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Joe Orth wrote:

>      I thought this was part of the reason for format integration. The
> main format would be mixed materials, possibly even allowing archival
> control.  Then one could add an 006 for the "seriality" of the item.
> Having cut my teeth on OCLC, I tend to think of serials only as
> published items.
> With format integration I don't see the "exclusion of options" you
> mention in your message.  If you add the serial 006 you can use it as
> a search qualifier as well.  Am I all washed up here? ....