Juliet Sutherland <vze3rknp@verizon.net> writes:
This is far from my area of expertise, but I do know that we are putting books into PG that come from several types of what I think of as "series". One kind is a group of books by one author (eg The Bobbsey Twins Series) and the other kind is a group of books, each by different authors, that are intended to go together (eg the English Men of Letters biographies). I'd think that we would want to have a way to represent each of these in the PG catalog.
And you are correct -- and this is why MARC has a number of different ways of dealing with the issue (and I am not the person to explain them) but as far as I can see they are not mutually exclusive. Fields can be repeated (MARC 830 is repeatable) and there is no reason why there aren't series within series. If there is a better way to do this? Was the LOC example I used wrong? b/ -- Brad Collins <brad@chenla.org>, Bangkok, Thailand