Karen said:
>Kevin, there is no reason why the publisher name would change over time.
I assume you mean change *in the record*; publishers change the form
of their names frequenty.
Kevin is correct, at the time of cataloguing the publisher's name may
have changed since the time of publication. Even if static in the
record once entered, that name at time of cataloguing may not be the
name on the item.
Even without a name change, there is no guarantee that the publisher's
name indicated by the middle portion of the ISBN appears on the item
in that form. With related and subsiderary publishers, the forms of
name for the same publisher vary widely.
It is vital that for identification purposes, the publisher element
reflect the name of the publisher *as on the item*.
ISBN based imprint for an 18 cm. paperback popular collection
frequently weeded might be OK, but not for a scholarly collection.
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