LC created that authority record, and also cataloged series 1 (78016687) and series 3 (2009023125) with the 245 $n and $p that you noticed on most titles in OCLC. Series 2 differs from the other two in that the individual volumes have distinctive titles, thus justifying treatment as a analyzed multi-part item.
(This is a little murkier than it might be because LC created a record for series 2 as well (98026125). Their policy has evolved; just before they gave up series authority work they would do either an authority record or a bibliographic record for a multi-part item, in the past they sometimes did both, and now that they don't do series authority work there is probably less consistency in when they see something as a 4XX and when they see it as part of the title of the individual volume.)
Hope this helps,
Amy
Amy Turner
Monographic Cataloger and Authority Control Coordinator
Duke University Libraries
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Subject: Re: [PCCLIST] series vs. title proper?
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Hi,
I've been cataloging The Frederick Douglass papers, published by Yale, which consists of 3 "series" each containing several separate books. I have chosen to use OCLC bib record # 39290009 for the second series within the papers. I noticed while searching OCLC that most titles put The Frederick Douglass papers in the 245 field, with subfields n and p providing more specificity. However, there is one book in the second series called My Bondage and My Freedom (OCLC # 51900353), which has only that as the title proper, while The Frederick Douglass papers is in a 490/830. There is a series authority record (ARN # 5998264) for it, but no corresponding auth records for series 1 and 3. I'm just wondering about the appropriateness of this authority record. Maybe there's something I'm just not understanding here, and if anyone can explain it to me, I would feel very enlightened.
Thanks,
Chris
Chris Fox
Catalog Librarian
McKay Library
Brigham Young Univ.-Idaho
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