 Welcome to week five of basic serials cataloging. So last week we covered editing records that you find when you're copying cataloging and this week we're going to talk about when you need to make a new record, when there's been a change to the serial that effectively makes it a new publication and you need to close out the old record and create a new record. In this section we're going to talk about changes to the title proper that would necessitate a new record. Here's kind of an overview of the decision process you would use in order to decide if you need a new record. The rule in RDA that handles this is RDA 2.3.2.12 so if you have access to the RDA rules you can check there. Another thing to consider is did the publisher really intend to change the title? You want to make sure this isn't just a fluctuating title like we talked about last week or it isn't just a typo in the title on one issue. You want to consult multiple issues to find out that this is for real a serious title change and so going along with that you need to look at all the issues you have in hand. If you have a title that changes from one issue to the next don't just automatically assume that that's a permanent title change. Continue to look at the issues that come after that to see if a title change and therefore a new record is necessary. RDA uses the concepts of major change and minor change. Basically a major change to the title is a change that requires a new record and a minor change does not require a new record and can usually be handled by adding a note or a 246 variant title of field. So here are what RDA considers to be major title changes, ones that require a new record. The first type of major change is changes that occur within the first five words of the title. If it's within the first five words that is probably much more likely to determine and affect searching results. So it's considered to be important to change the title and create a new record. So here are some examples. The vocational guidance quarterly changes to career development quarterly. Those are RDA when five words in the title so that's right at the beginning so that is a major change. As is a change from Iowa historical record to Iowa journal and history. As is a change from chemical engineering and mining review to mining and chemical engineering review. Notice that in this one the words have actually changed but the order of the words is changed and so that is considered to be a major enough change. Changes that occur after the first five words are usually not considered major but they can be if they change the meaning of the title or they indicate a different subject matter for the cereal. So in that first example the best bed and breakfast in the world changes to the best bed and breakfast in England, Scotland and Wales. That's clearly a very different scope of the publication. It goes from covering the world to just covering England, Scotland and Wales. In the second example you'll see world meetings changes from social and behavioral sciences education and management to social and behavioral sciences human services and management. So there's a big enough change between education and human services that that's considered to be a different subject matter of the cereal. Another type of major title change is if the name of a corporate body is given in the title and this name of this body changes. So you can see that the reports of the Institute of High Speed Mechanics if the corporate body changes to the Institute of Fluid Science then if that body is included in the title then that's obviously a major title change. We're just going to talk briefly about the categories of minor title changes things that do not count as changes that require a new record. RDA gives nine categories of minor changes. Most of these are exceptions to the first major change rule meaning that they are changes in the first five words that don't require a new record. I'm here as a list of those changes. We'll just go through and look at an example of each really quickly. If the representation of a word changes in the first five words for example if it was spelled out on an older issue and now it is abbreviated such as in that St. Paul example that's a minor change and even if it's in the first five words it doesn't require a new record. If there's a change in articles, prepositions, prepositions or conjunctions that's considered to be pretty minor so the annual report of pipeline safety when it changes to annual report on pipeline safety that's not considered a major change. There can be some changes to names of corporate body that are not considered major. This would be if the change in the name is minor enough that it doesn't require a new authority record so department of forestry if the title changes to forestry department that's still close enough that they usually wouldn't establish a new corporate heading for that so this is not a big of a change as we saw in our previous example. So minor changes to corporate body names don't count as major changes. Changes in punctuation don't count as major changes. The order of titles when it comes to parallel titles which are titles in multiple languages if they used to give the English title first and all of a sudden they switched to giving the English title second that is still minor change because both the titles are still the same they're just in a different order so that doesn't count as a major change. Words linking to the numbering of the reports for example is not a major change so if they used to say annual reports 2000 or whatever the year was and now it says annual report for 2001 that's pretty minor. We talked about fluctuating titles a little bit last week though is our not major changes because they go back and forth if you have a new paper where most of the issues have one title but the Sunday issues have a different title that's a fluctuating title and not a permanent change. If there are words in a list and they're given if there's just like maybe one item added into that list like you see in this example that's not considered a major change and you know I said before that sometimes rearranging the order of the words is major change if the only thing that's rearranged is the word that denotes the type of resource if it used to be at the end of the title and now it's at the beginning that's a minor change as well. So those are the differences between major and minor changes and the cases in which you would or would not establish a new record for a serial.