Hi,

How do people enter series and (optional) part numbers?

I hope there is a standard way of entering this information (you need
to be in Librarian mode to be able to see the series field), but I've
seen several ways:
- "The Story of Civilization, Part III" is the example.
- "Series name -- number" is in many Canadian microform editions.
- "Harry Potter (5)" and similar is another form.

The example is simple and does not provide guidance on what to do when
there is a comma in the title or whether to add "Part" or stick to a
number. And books may be part of several series - the /type/edition
supports multiple series - but what delimiter should be used to enter
multiple series+parts?
I know there are no rules for this (maybe there's an exception for the
delimiter), but it sometimes makes it difficult to decipher the
meaning from the contents of records.

Ben
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