On Tue, 7 Sep 1999 15:12:06 -0400 William Rafter said:
>The question has been raised why *Eastern European politics and societies*
>(OCLC#13538372) is not a title change when since 1990-  it has had the
>title *East European politics and societies*    (Our run does not start
>until well after 1990.)
>
>I believe it is due to the reason stated in the CONSER Cataloging Manual in
>no. 3 of 16.2.3  that the only change is one in representation of a word,
>in this case "eastern" vs. "east" ?     Can someone confirm this, thanks
>for your help.

I also would assume that AACR2 21.2A1a has been stretched to apply here.
I say "stretched" because none of the cases I see quite applies to this
case.  There is no change in orthography, nor is this a case in change
in representation (which means "&" vs. "and" or acronyms vs. spelled-out
forms).  There has been a change of words, but the words are pretty much
synonymous, and are very close in spelling.  I rather like the solution,
although I think it just "squeaks by" the rules, at best.

Michael S. Borries
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