Re: Recording Incorrect ISSN Numbers in Series Statements

Quoting Ed Kazzimir <edwardk@...>:

> Hello to all,
>
> I have been working on a number of titles from the same series: Canadian
> Manuscript Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.
>
> We have been adding a series statement with the ISSN from the title page
> verso in subfield x.
>
> 440 _0 $a Canadian Manuscript Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, $x
> 0706-6473 ; $v no. xxxx
>
> I have one report that has an incorrect ISSN number, 07065-6473. It does
> not validate on OCLC in the 440 field.
>
> How do I add this and the correct ISSN to the record?

Use the correct ISSN (as found in other records).  There's no  
provision for the incorrect number.

ISSN format is always nnnn-nnnn.

Standard numbers are not transcription-based -- AACR2 says "any  
source" (I don't have it in front of me, though) -- though it's right  
to record incorrect numbers in 020 and 022 when they're for the whole  
resource being catalogued.  I single instance of an incorrect ISSN on  
one issue of a serial or series probably isn't significant.  If  
somehow it is, all you can do is make a note.  Don't put it in 022 $y  
or $z.

Hal Cain
Dalton McCaughey Library
Parkville, Victoria, Australia
hal@...

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