Karen Weaver et al.,
I think there must be a misunderstanding about the question of the
number of holdings listed in OCLC's WorldCat for the Encyclopedia of
Library and Information Sciences. Karen, you are saying that other
libraries may list ELIS3 as a continuation of the earlier editions,
but I haven't found any examples of that. Indeed, even the Library
of Congress lists the editions separately. I've looked under both of
the specific records you point to (LC and OCLC), and they both list
only the original editors and the original volume numbers. No
changes in editors are listed and no volume numbers are given beyond
the original number of volumes in the first edition. (There were 73
volumes in the first edition, including some 40+ supplements.) In
sum, there are NOT 332 copies of ELIS3 in libraries!
If you search for the 3rd edition title in OCLC you find the same
small set of records that I have been working off of during this
whole discussion. Though they may sometimes handle things as
continuations, libraries seem not to have done that with this work.
By the way, I certainly value cataloging--I used to teach it, a
hundred years ago or so. ;-)
Marcia
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Marcia J. Bates, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Editor, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, 3rd Ed.
Department of Information Studies
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520 USA
Tel: 310-206-9353
Fax: 310-206-4460
Web: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/bates/
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