I think you must establish each heading based on the usage of the
individual conference, and it if it doesn't use numbering, then I wouldn't
supply it.
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On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Benjamin A Abrahamse wrote:
> I'm establishing individual sessions of an ongoing conference. For some reason this particular conference has been rather inconsistent with its numbering. That is to say, some sessions of the conference do not include the number, just the date, while others include a number and a date.
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> For those individual conferences that have only a date, should I supply the numbering based on the others? Or should I leave out the numbering on all sessions? Or should I add the numbering only to those that include numbering (which might cause the headings to index in a weird way)?
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> I would note this was not a question under AACR2 (at least, not for authorities) where we only established the "stem record" for ongoing conferences.
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> I haven't found any guidance on this in DCM Z1, or RDA Toolkit. Did I overlook something? If not, any strong opinions and/or advice on this issue from experienced NACO catalogers?
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> Thanks,
> --Ben
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> Benjamin Abrahamse
> Cataloging Coordinator
> Acquisitions, Metadata and Enterprise Systems
> MIT Libraries
> 617-253-7137
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