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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:45:26 -0500
From: Serial Record Division <serrec@LOC.GOV>
Subject: Re: Serials Cats./Record Length Problem

To: SERIALST, INTERCAT
From: Bill Anderson, LC CONSER Specialist

Recent discussion involved the cataloging of a serial with
multiple related titles.  The _CONSER Editing Guide_ does cover
this kind of situation.  In "Linking Entry Fields--General
Information," p. 14-15, instructions are offered along with an
example that shows one of the three approaches mentioned.  Here
is an excerpt from the _CEG_.  Hope this helps.

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SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS--NUMEROUS RELATED RECORDS

In cases where numerous titles are related to the serial, each
cataloged separately, it may be impractical to list each in a
separate linking field.  When this occurs, the following method
may be applied.
     a) Create a 580 note providing an explanation of the related
titles associated with the serial.
     b) If each related title has the same common title, give the
common title in the linking field. Use the mark of omission for
the section title.  Add the LC control number (or the OCLC
control if there is no LC number) of each related title in
separate subfields w.
     c) If the related titles do not have a common title, give as
much information as possible in the 580 field and omit the
linking fields.

     245 00  World agriculture outlook & situation.
     580     Vols. for 1982-   have numerous supplements
      covering various geographic world areas: Western Europe,
      Eastern Europe, USSR, Asia, South Asia, China, Middle East
      and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Hemisphere,
      North America and Oceania, Latin America, etc.
      Supplements have common title: Review of agriculture in
      ... and outlook for ..., 1982; World agriculture regional
      supplement, 1983-
     770 1    $t Review of agriculture in ... and outlook for
       ... $w (DLC)   82645567 $w (DLC)   83641501 $w (DLC)
      84644070 $w (DLC)sc 83002053 $w (DLC)   83641487 $w
      (DLC)sc 83007067 $w (DLC)   8347862 $w (OCoLC)9476625
     770 1    $t World agriculture regional supplement ... $w
      (DLC)   84644204 $w (DLC)   84642744 $w (DLC)   84644205
      $w (DLC)   83647919 $w (DLC)   84642701 $w (OCoLC)10196053
      $w (OCoLC)10191180 $w (OCoLC)10216626 $w (OCoLC)6559094