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Adams and Santamauro, Successive Entry etc.

Posted by: William Denton, 20 October 2008 12:42 pm
Categories: Aggregates

“Successive Entry, Latest Entry, or None of the Above? How the MARC21 Format, FRBR and the Concept of a Work Could Revitalize Serials Management,” Kurt Blythe’s notes on a talk by Katherine Adams and Britta Santamauro, The Serials Librarian 54 (3/4), 2008.

ABSTRACT: Current cataloging practices are insufficient to the task of providing access to serial content. The presenters acknowledge that RDA (Resource Description and Access), FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) and the CONSER (Cooperative Online Serials) standard record will improve libraries’ ability to respond to the exponential increase in information resources brought about by the Internet but feel that more may be done. Adams and Santamauro propose to apply the concepts of FRBR to serialscataloging and database design, in addition to the user interface, thereby saving time in cataloging and providing the user with cleaner records.

Also noted by the Serials Cataloger. I’ve got net connection problems and am running behind.