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Date:         Fri, 8 Aug 1997 15:24:59 -0500
From: SHAFFER@JCL.LIB.KS.US
Subject:      Re: Polk directories (Vicki Parke)

I am glad I am not the only one frustrated by Polk directory title changes.
I have threatened to change the next "title change" into monograph record,
but I think your idea of a 246 makes sense and would be a lot less work.

Carolyn Shaffer
Cataloger
Johnson County Library
shaffer@jcl.lib.ks.us
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Date:         Fri, 8 Aug 1997 16:35:56 -0400
From: Kamala Narayanan <narayana@STAUFFER.QUEENSU.CA>
Subject:      Re: Polk directories (Vicki Parke)

As it now stands we have used 6 different 246 tags for our local Polk
directories.

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At 14:30 08/08/97 -0400, you wrote:
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 13:02:39 EDT
>From: Vicki Parke <vparke@LEO.VSLA.EDU>
>Subject: polk directories
>
>I have a question for all of you that receive and catalog
>Polk directories.  The 1996 issue looked like this:
>
>Polk city directory <1996> Town, State
>
>
>the 1997 issue looks like this:
>
>1997 edition of the Polk City directory for Town, State
>
>
>I would like to make this a 246 rather than a title change
>because "Polk city directory for Town, State" is practically
>the title for the previous issue.  However, I am left with the
>prepositional phrase "of the" dangling out there at the
>beginning of my title.  Has anyone already thought
>up a solution for this?  I would like to explain it in a note
>but haven't come up with anything brilliant yet.
>
>TIA
>--
> _____________________________
>|                             |
>|   Vicki Parke               |
>|   The Library of Virginia   |
>|   vparke@leo.vsla.edu       |
>|_____________________________|
>
>
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Central Library Technical Services,
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