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I think an example for handling multipart monographs would be helpful here. Unlike serials, multipart descriptive cataloging includes the publication date(s) in 260 subfield c, so simply recording volume numbers is not helpful, especially since the $c is not repeatable in the subsequent 260 fields e.g.

260 __ ‡3 v. 1: ‡a Darmstadt : ‡b Primus, ‡c c2007-2009.
260 3_ ‡3 v. 2: ‡a Münster : ‡b Lit

Multiparts are frequently published out of volume order, so one can't infer when v.1 and v.2 were issued. 

Prefer (if published in volume order):

260 __ ‡3 v. 1 (c2007): ‡a Darmstadt : ‡b Primus, ‡c c2007-2009.
260 3_ ‡3 v. 2 (2009): ‡a Münster : ‡b Lit

(if published out of volume order):

260 __ ‡3 v. 2 (c2007): ‡a Darmstadt : ‡b Primus, ‡c c2007-2009.
260 3_ ‡3 v. 1 (2009): ‡a Münster : ‡b Lit

Also, the indicator 3 (current publisher) seems to make more sense for serials; when the set is complete there really is no "current" publisher (v. 2 could be out of print for all we know). Wouldn't it be better to leave indicator as blank in such cases?


Steven Arakawa 
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Catalog & Metadata Services, SML, Yale University
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Subject: Punctuation used with $3 and $x in 260, 490, 8XX Fields: PCC guidelines

PCC guidelines for punctuation associated with newly implemented subfields
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Les Hawkins
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Library of Congress
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