"I would place the number with the series title" That makes perfect sense to me :)
On 10/12/10 4:20 PM, Roger Loran Bailey wrote: > Well, there are standards and there are common usages. Most of us know, for > example, what standard English is, but very few people actually talk that > way. Standards of library cataloging are a bit more obscure though. If we > have a professional librarian here I suppose we can get an answer to what > the standard is. As for common usage, though, the most common catalog > entries that I see place the number of the book in a series with the name of > the series. In fact, examples of it being done differently do not come to > mind right now. That is why I suspect that to be the standard, but I cannot > be sure. The authorities who make up the standards can make up some pretty > obscure ones sometimes. As for myself, I would place the number with the > series title until someone who has the credentials says otherwise. > > > _ _ _ > > "Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks > differently." - Rosa Luxemburg > > > The Militant: > http://www.themilitant.com > Pathfinder Press: > http://www.pathfinderpress.com > Granma International: > http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alan Millar"<[email protected]> > To: "Open Library -- general discussion"<[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 4:11 PM > Subject: Re: [ol-discuss] Series titles: include individual ID or not? > > >> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Roger Loran Bailey >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I think I would add the series number. There doesn't seem to be much >>> point >>> in identifying a book as being in a series if there is no indication of >>> which one in the series it is. >> >> Yes, certainly, we want the number identifying which one in the series it >> is. >> >> To expand or clarify, then, I guess my specific question is whether >> that should go in the series name field, or in another field such as >> the subtitle. >> >> I know data gets conflated when translated between different >> databases, but I don't know what is considered the standard or proper >> way of describing the series collective and individual data (if there >> is such a thing). >> >> Thanks for the feedback. >> >> - Alan >> _______________________________________________ >> Ol-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to >> [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
