DCRM(S) pt. 0A addendum

[Jane Gillis]

At 11:27 AM 1/30/01 Tuesday-0500, Deborah J. Leslie wrote:
>Perhaps this would be a good place to insert something like:
>
>Do you only have one issue of a serial? If so, consider cataloging it as
>a monograph.
 
After seeing comments from Bob and Deborah, I can  tell that what we are trying
to say is getting lost.  

If you have only one issue of a serial, it's usually very easy to catalog it as
a serial--nothing changes.  If it is an almanac, a city directory, it *could*
be cataloged as a monographic

What we were talking about, though, in that paragraph, is when you have an
almanac, with issues over several years.  These are usually, if not all the
time,  annuals.  When you have issues for the same year that are different
(e.g., pagination, publisher, person who does the calculations), then it is a
good time to consider treating all the issues as monographs.  Another
consideration is if the individual issues are in bibliographies (Shaw $
Shoemaker, Evans, Drake's American almanacs) and there are several listed under
each year.

Do people understand what I am getting at here?

Jane