[Heb-NACO] Meḥḳar ṿe-ʻiyun--series like phrase?

Jasmin Nof jnof at upenn.edu
Thu May 15 13:24:45 EDT 2014


the down side of leaving treatment decisions as they are (even when 
erroneous) is that inexperienced catalogers then use those records as 
justification and patterns for creating similar records, thus 
perpetuating the problem.  but yes, i know, there are only so many hours 
in a day...

On 5/15/2014 12:39 PM, Heidi G Lerner wrote:
> Hi Bob,
> I agree with you on the treatment but just to get another opinion I 
> asked our unit's series specialist and here is her response:
>
> "It's catalogers' judgment. If you strongly feel it's wrong, you could 
> contact the NACO liaison
> at the contributing institution (UPB) and ask them if they would 
> re-evaluate their
> decision to treat it as a traced series.
>
> I wouldn't change the treatment decisions on a series NAR contributed 
> by another institution
> without contacting the institution first; they may have had a reason 
> for their decision that's
> not clear from the NAR.
>
> (To be honest, I just accept the treatment decision in the NAR and 
> follow it, even if
> I would not have handled it that way.)"
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From: *"Robert M. TALBOTT" <rtalbott at library.berkeley.edu>
> *To: *"Hebrew Name Authority Funnel" 
> <heb-naco at lists.service.ohio-state.edu>
> *Sent: *Thursday, May 15, 2014 8:50:39 AM
> *Subject: *[Heb-NACO] Meḥḳar ṿe-ʻiyun--series like phrase?
>
> Folks:
>
> I discovered the below just a few minutes ago:
>
> 010  no2014051687
> 046  ǂk 2011 ǂv OCLC, 18 April 2014
> 130 0Meḥḳar ṿe-ʻiyun
> 380  Series (Publications) ǂa Monographic series ǂ2 lcsh
> 430 0מחקר ועיון
> 667  Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
> 643  Yerushalayim ǂb Hotsaʼat sefarim ʻa. sh. Y.L. Magnes, 
> ha-Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit
> 644  f ǂ5 UPB
> 645  t ǂ5 DPCC ǂ5 UPB
> 646  s ǂ5 UPB
> 670  Shner, Moshe. Be-reshit hayetah ha-Shoʼah, 2013 : ǂb back cover 
> (מחקר ועיון)
>
> For my money, "mehkar ve-iyun" is a series-like phrase per LC-PCC PS 
> 2.12, #8.  Though there are two words, they do only appear on the 
> cover and they certainly do fit the unnumbered and characterizing 
> criteria of series-like phrases.
>
> However, I havce noticed that this sort of thing has been happening 
> quite a bit of late, so perhaps it's time to hear what others have to 
> say.  It could be that I'm way off base and my series-related 
> Spidey-senses need recalibration.
>
> Cheers
>
> B
>
> -- 
> Bob Talbott
> Hebraica Cataloger
> UC Berkeley
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