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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 14:30:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jones Wayne <WAJ@ABS.NLC-BNC.CA>
Subject: RE: Description based on ...

Rich
Yes, you are definitely right to catalogue the separate issues
and the cumulations on the same record. As for which to base
the description on, the earliest available issue is always the
first choice. The cumulations and the issues in fact make
up the same serial, and so the earliest of either of these should
be the one you base your description on. So, according to the
information you gave in your original posting, the description
should be based on the 1963 cumulation instead of on the 1994
issue. If there is useful information in the 1994 issue which you
cannot simply record without referring to the fact that it comes
from the 1994 issue, you could mention the info in a note.

w

Wayne Jones
Leader, Serials Team
National Library of Canada
395 Wellington St.
Ottawa, Ont.
K1A 0N4
tel. (819) 953-2718
fax (819) 953-0291
email wayne.jones@nlc-bnc.ca

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From: owner-serialst
To: Multiple recipients of list SERIALST
Subject: Description based on ...
Date: Thursday, August 29, 1996 1:50PM

The title under consideration is *Canadian patent reporter*.

This title is publised twenty-five times a year, with bound cumulations
every three or four issues. Publication began in 1941; our library has
the bound cumulative volumes since 1963.

After viewing CONSER and LCRI, it seems that the most logical course of
action is to catalog the main serial and the cumulation on the same
record, as they have the same title and the volume and series numbering
of the paper issues is continued on the cumulations.

The question: *What* do I use as the basis for the bibliographic
description, the earliest bound cumulation available (1963), or the
earliest paper issue (1994 issue that someone forgot to discard)? Or can
I use both? And if so, how can I note that on the record? Both contain
valuable information. On the one hand, the record seems to be describing
the *paper* issues as the main serial; on the other hand, shouldn't the
earliest available source be used?

Thank you in advance for your help.

 --Rich.V.

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