[Metadatalibrarians] how to title journal records

[Tom Koenig]

If I understand you correctly then it sounds like what I would encounter if I were cataloging an individual issue of a serial. In which case I would use the title of the serial with the addition of the vol./issue or date as part of the title. 
For example: Natural life. No. 72          
or   Amnesty action. Winter/Spring 1994

Hope that helps. 

Thomas Koenig
Archives and Special Collections Catalog/Metadata Librarian 
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
University of Connecticut
405 Babbidge Road, Unit 1205
Storrs, CT 06269-1205 
860-486-4990
 
 
 


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> Alice
> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 4:27 PM
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> Subject: [Metadatalibrarians] how to title journal records
> 
> 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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