Dear colleagues, I am wondering how your respective libraries handle multi-volume sets that are given accession numbers rather than call numbers. Does each individual DVD or VHS (!) have a unique accession number, or do you use the same number but have an add-on such as volume 1, disk 1, etc? For example, if you have the Great Speeches collection, do you catalog them with different accession numbers or do you use 1235 vol 1, 1235 vol 2?
I am only interested in how the numbering would work for a closed collection, not for anything that is browsable or in the stacks. Thank you for your feedback. Lindsay Hansen Lindsay J. Hansen Music & Media Librarian - California State University, Northridge 18111 Nordhoff St. Northridge, CA 91330-8326 Phone: (818) 677-7147 Fax: (818) 677-7167 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [cid:51B003A7-C912-4D00-9CDC-329313125DC8]
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