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. JulietS Brad Collins wrote:
Andrew Sly <sly@victoria.tc.ca> writes:
I question if the use of a series number as suggested below is an ideal approach.
I believe it is intended for a smaller number of items which are intentionally published as a series.
I'd suggest that the closest thing to PG etexts numbers in a traditional research library, would be accession numbers (as commonly used for microforms)
I used Series because The Early English Text Society publications are cataloged as a series and this was the closest thing I have found to the PG etext numbers.
This is from the LOC:
Series: Early English Text Society (Series). Original series ; 10, [etc.]
830 _0 |a Early English Text Society (Series). |p Original series ; |v 10, [etc.]
I understand that the PG etext numbers are not a concious planned series but I still think it works....
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