Well, there are standards and there are common usages. Most of us know, for example, what standard English is, but very few people actually talk that way. Standards of library cataloging are a bit more obscure though. If we have a professional librarian here I suppose we can get an answer to what the standard is. As for common usage, though, the most common catalog entries that I see place the number of the book in a series with the name of the series. In fact, examples of it being done differently do not come to mind right now. That is why I suspect that to be the standard, but I cannot be sure. The authorities who make up the standards can make up some pretty obscure ones sometimes. As for myself, I would place the number with the series title until someone who has the credentials says otherwise.
_ _ _ "Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently." - Rosa Luxemburg The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Millar" <amillar...@gmail.com> To: "Open Library -- general discussion" <ol-discuss@archive.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 4:11 PM Subject: Re: [ol-discuss] Series titles: include individual ID or not? > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Roger Loran Bailey > <rogerbaile...@aol.com> wrote: >> I think I would add the series number. There doesn't seem to be much >> point >> in identifying a book as being in a series if there is no indication of >> which one in the series it is. > > Yes, certainly, we want the number identifying which one in the series it > is. > > To expand or clarify, then, I guess my specific question is whether > that should go in the series name field, or in another field such as > the subtitle. > > I know data gets conflated when translated between different > databases, but I don't know what is considered the standard or proper > way of describing the series collective and individual data (if there > is such a thing). > > Thanks for the feedback. > > - Alan > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > Ol-discuss@archive.org > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org