Assignment 2

Mario Pagliaro

LIBRLT351

Valerie Neil

July 4 2022
 Assignment 2: Cataloguing Serials

1. a) 1968.

b) There is none because (006) is not in this MARC record.

c) Feb. 23, 1928.

2. a) 0028-4793.

b) 1533-4406.

c) If it was discovered that the ISSN was incorrect, the subfield would one use to denote

an incorrect ISSN is $y.

d) The eighth character is a control digit.

3. a) The title proper for this serial is The New England journal of medicine.

b) There is no added entry in this catalogue.

c) There is one non-filing character and it is “The”.

d) The varying title form is (N Engl j med). You can find this information in field 246.

4. a) Massachusetts Medical Society publishes this serial, and they are located in Boston.

b) It is published weekly.

c) It began collecting this serial at Volume 198. The field you can find this information in

is 362.

5. a) Massachusetts Medical Society and New England Surgical Society.

b) The first indicator 2 in a 710 field means a name in direct order.

6. a) You find the preceding title information in field 780.

b) It used to be known as Boston medical and surgical journal.

c) The ISSN for that title is 0096-6762.

d) The field that should be in the record for the preceding title to point to the new succeeding

title for this serial is 785.