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Hi all, I was curious about the series question, so I asked Adam Schiff (principal cataloger at UW Libraries) what he thought - his thoughts below, which he said I could forward. I still teach the history of the 740 field in Advanced Cat. because of older records, so it seems sensible to do the same for 440. Allyson > -----Original Message----- > From: Adam L. Schiff [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 10:02 PM > To: Allyson Carlyle > Subject: Re: FW: How are you teaching series? > > Allyson, > > The 440 won't officially become obsolete until the next MARC Update is > published. Probably that won't be for another half year at least. Even > then, the 440 will continue to remain as legacy data, so its use needs to > be understood even if it is no longer valid for use in new records. OCLC > may convert all of their records from 440 to 490/830, but most other > libraries won't have the resources to do that in their local systems. So > I think you need to teach both 440 and 490/8XX. > > Adam > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Adam L. Schiff > Principal Cataloger > University of Washington Libraries > Box 352900 > Seattle, WA 98195-2900 > (206) 543-8409 > (206) 685-8782 fax > [log in to unmask] > http://faculty.washington.edu/~aschiff > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Allyson Carlyle wrote: > >> What do you think we should be doing? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Discussion List for issues related to cataloging & metadata education & training [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kamoji, Linda J >> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 4:51 AM >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: [eduCAT] How are you teaching series? >> >> Hi. How are you dealing with teaching the series MARC fields for monographs? >> >> Teaching the proposed abandonment of 440 and using 490 1 and 8XX only? >> >> Teaching both the old (440) and the new ways? >> >> Something else? >> >> Thanks for any input. >> >> Linda Kamoji >> Indiana University Libraries >> Cataloging manager and Adjunct Lecturer >> >