12.1B4.
Common Title/Section Title:
In applying 12.1B4, consider all presentations of the common title and section title within the item. If any one source within the preliminaries or in the publisher’s listing presents both titles, regardless of the proximity of the titles within the same source, consider the application of 12.1B4 rather than 12.1B6. If 12.1B4 is to be applied, the source containing both titles is the chief source of information for the item.
Common Title or Unnumbered Series?:
When there is only one designation on the item it may be difficult to determine if the more comprehensive title is a common title or the title of an unnumbered series. To help make this determination, consider the presence of other records in the catalog in which the common title appears, wither treated as a series or as part of the title proper.
a. Treat both titles as the title proper if:
1. the comprehensive title is carried by a group of related serials that are issued by the same publisher in a similar format. Frequently the section title will consist of no more than a geographic designation or subject phrase.
2. the section title is dependent on the more comprehensive title (cf. LCRI 25.6A ), or the more comprehensive title is essentially general (e.g., "Acts," "Abstracts," "Journal," "Proceedings") and the second title includes or consists of a subject phrase that indicates a division of the general title.
b. Treat the more comprehensive title as a series in all other cases or in case of doubt.
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