Joan Wang asked:
>If you treat loose-leaf updating, you are cataloging an integrating
>resource instead of a monograph. Is that right?
If a loose-leaf publication is known to be updating, we would
catalogue as an integrating resource. If not, we would catalogue as a
monograph, and change when the first update appears.
Our medical clients often want monograph text book records changed to
serials when there are very frequent (sometimes annual) new editions.
It is not infrequent that we change from monograph to integrating or
serial, and back again. We do not consider this a fixed
categorization.
Granted we are going against definition to use "loose-leaf" in the
collation of a monograph, but it is an accurate *physical* description
for patrons locating the item. "Kit" is another definition which no
longer works. Many kits made of of bits and pieces contain only one
material. RDA is particularly poor for kits, as Julie Moore has
demonstrated.
"New occasions teach new duties. Time makes ancient good
uncouth. They must ever upward and onward who would keep abreast of
truth." --James Russell Lowell
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