[yul-naco] FW: [PCCLIST] Interim Report of the PCC Series Policy Task Force

[Sarcia, Richard]

FYI; I haven't had a chance to read through this yet.

From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging [mailto:PCCLIST at LISTSERV.LOC.GOV] On Behalf Of Beth Picknally Camden
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2014 1:58 PM
To: PCCLIST at LISTSERV.LOC.GOV
Subject: [PCCLIST] Interim Report of the PCC Series Policy Task Force

Dear PCC members,

I would like to share for your consideration the Interim Report of the PCC Series Policy Task Force, with comments from the Standing Committee on Standards (SCS).     The report is now available on the PCC website or directly at:  http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/documents/PCCSCTSeriesPolicyListRecommendations20140117-SCSMay29.docx

I would like to thank the task group (Ed Jones, Robert Maxwell, George Prager, and Paul Priebe) for their work on this extensive report.   I should note that they consider this to be an interim report, and have included an appendix of Other Series-Related Policy Statements That Still Need Review.

I would also like to thank the SCS for their review.   The SCS comments are interspersed in red throughout the report.  They have also raised several outstanding issues:
1. How Many SARS should be made?
SCS received the following comment from a series specialist:
"DCM Z1, Introduction, How Many SARs Should Be Made? Guidelines still has this statement:
(3) How many authority records are made if the same volumes in a series are published separately by publishers in the same language in the United States and in another country (e.g., England)?  A separate SAR is made for the series from each publisher; if the titles of the series are the same, add a LCRI 25.5B qualifier to the SAR made later.
This very directly continues the pre-RDA policy that SARs in the NAF are specific to and differentiated for manifestations of series.  Its continued presence is a block if someone requests that I merge SARs for different series manifestations from different publishers or modify an existing such SAR and have to re-code it as RDA.  I identified these problem matters years ago.  The interim report has a recommendation about SARs for print and online versions of the same series, but that is too limited, as the guideline cited above shows.  It is indeed a big task to redesign series policies to be work- and expression-oriented and not manifestation-oriented as it has been in the past, and it is not surprising if that work is still in progress.  Dealing with the policy cited above is one necessary thing among many that still has to be done."
While the TG report says that RDA simply lacks instructions for manifestation AAPs, it also lacks any justification for catalogers trying to construct manifestation AAPs on their own, see 24.4.
If the content is identical, then the resources involved are manifestations of a common expression, and while there will be distinct key titles (because of ISSN rules), there will not be distinct AAPs, and so presumably a single SAR. Also presumably, the qualifier in the key title will always be preferred to the ISSN if a qualifier is needed for the AAP, and consequently an ISSN will never be used as a qualifier in an AAP?

2. LC-PCC PS 25.1.1.3. PCC Practice: When recording a relationship to a series using an authorized access point in 8XX, always support the access point by recording the series statement in 490, a note (such as 534), or a 7XX linking field.
This, in a nutshell, is the current BSR practice for monographs.  We also draw attention to the fact that LC and CONSER Core guidelines are virtually diametrically opposed for new records:  LC does not trace series, and requires 490 but not 8XX; CONSER requires 8XX but not 490 if the series is being traced.  If PoCo wishes to adopt a single approach, we recommend that the Series Policy Task Group be asked to lay out the pros and cons for PoCo.  It would be good if there were input from the PCC community at large.  PoCo should rely heavily on comments from the CONSER and BIBCO representatives.

3. SCS would like to see a Policy Statement from the Task Group for the following category: Analyzed bibliographical resources with more than one issue of a series, nonconsecutive numbering.

Your feedback on the report or on the outstanding issues may be sent to this list, or to Rebecca Culbertson, SCS Chair rculbertson at ucsd.edu<mailto:rculbertson at ucsd.edu>.  Please comment by Friday August 15.

Thanks, Beth


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Beth Picknally Camden

Chair, PCC Policy Committee

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Goldstein Director of Information Processing

University of Pennsylvania Libraries

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