[Metadatalibrarians] how to title journal records

[Platt, Alice]

I am working on starting a new collection in our DSpace repository, and have stumbled upon what I believe is a common conundrum.

The collection is for a monthly e-journal. The e-journal is originally distributed as a PDF document to a listserv. It often is not just one PDF, but a main PDF file and several attachments.

The fact that there's several PDFs associated with each issue kind of forces me to create an individual item record for each issue in our repository. It's probably better that way all around anyway, for many reasons which are probably extraneous to mention here.

However, this leads me to wonder what the title should be. It doesn't seem right to have each issue all have the same title. Thoughts?

Alice Platt
Digital Initiatives Librarian
Shapiro Library
Southern New Hampshire University
2500 North River Rd
Manchester, NH 03106
USA
603-668-2211 x 2156


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