Comments on: Why So Serie-ous? A New Way to Catalog Books https://publiclibrariesonline.org/2012/10/why-so-serie-ous-a-new-way-to-catalog-books/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-so-serie-ous-a-new-way-to-catalog-books A Publication of the Public Library Association Sun, 09 Dec 2012 05:21:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.5 By: Brendan https://publiclibrariesonline.org/2012/10/why-so-serie-ous-a-new-way-to-catalog-books/#comment-536 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 05:21:47 +0000 http://publiclibrariesonline.org/?p=32#comment-536 Well thank you for the comments! For some reason I could never see them until now . . . the funny thing is as soon as got this article published, i scrapped the entire system here and built my own database from scratch using Access (didnt want to pay for AllMyBooks and didnt want to deal with the limitations it placed on me)

]]> By: robin https://publiclibrariesonline.org/2012/10/why-so-serie-ous-a-new-way-to-catalog-books/#comment-17 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:02:05 +0000 http://publiclibrariesonline.org/?p=32#comment-17 There are multiple issues with relying on series to group items in such a way. For academic works and nonfiction, rarely does series numbering correspond to reading order. Additionally, there are many many series (e.g., Time Life Books) which are unnumbered. The actual numbering aspect is a number display/counting feature as noted in the post, it would file 1,10, 100, 1000 would all file before 2. (It can be fixed) How to group all of the works of William Shakespeare together when they are from different publishers and series (if at all)? What about set numbering for items which are in sets? FRBR (a foundation of the cataloging code RDA which will be replacing AACR2 in 2013 for most newly cataloged titles) supports a built concept of relationships. For example, Work would link most of the Romeo and Juliets together (it gets complicated).

Some food for thought… Is it more important to group titles in reading order (when it exists) or to group different editions and versions together? Can it be both and if so, how? In that way, the developing FRBR model in library catalog development, may be able to address that very issue. Using publisher series to group as libraries currently do and then being able to connect those editions and versions together at the larger level – relationship – the “metarecord”.
Thanks for sharing – some very interesting thoughts. Openlibrary.org might be another project to check out.

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