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(Cf. Part II.C.1, on editing pagination)
If there are significant differences in pagination between the piece and a record,
the record is not a match. However, the following differences do not prevent a
match:
- Minor variations, such as differences in preliminary or post pagination
(including the presence of bracketed page numbers in the record) unless
the variation provides a clue to a change in the actual text. (It should be
noted that, at one time, cataloguers of some foreign titles put pagination
figures that represented the last printed page, not the last numbered page.
Such records can be used.)
- E.g. The piece has 225 numbered pages, with a final unnumbered page
of text.
- 300 $a 226 p.
- This record could be a match.
- E.g. The piece has vii preliminary pages, then 320 pages.
- 300 $a vi, 320 p.
- This record could be a match.
- E.g. The piece has vii preliminary pages, then 320 pages.
- 300 $a 320 p.
- If everything else matches, this record is a match. (The inputting
library probably either
- forgot to include the preliminary pagination
or omitted them due to following obsolete
- cataloguing rules.)
- E.g. The piece has xii preliminary pages, then 246 pages; p. x-xii are
entitled
- "Addendum to Bibliography."
- 300 $a ix, 246 p.
- This record would not be a match, since the difference in
preliminary pagination is the result
- of the addition of new material.
Note that there would also probably be a difference in
- dates in this case.
- Variation because a particular section of the item appears to have been
numbered in one printing but unnumbered in another.
- E.g. The piece has 187 numbered pages, then an index consisting of 4
unnumbered pages.
- 300 $a 191 p.
- This record could be a match.
- Variation because our piece appears to be incomplete (for example,
missing the final pages).
- Variation in pagination between the piece and a UKM record, even if that
variation seems substantial and whether or not the pagination is bracketed
in the record.
- E.g. The piece has 324 numbered pages, with only 2 unnumbered pages.
- 300 $a [372] p.
- If everything else matches, this record is a match.
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(Cf. Part II.C.2, on editing illustration statement)
The presence or absence of illustrations in the record or the piece does not prevent
a match.
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(Cf. Part II.C.3, on editing size)
If the size of the item and the number of centimeters recorded in the 300 $c
subfield differ by over 2 centimeters, the record may not be a match. This is
particularly the case in conjunction with some other clue of a distinction, such as a
"Paperback edition" statement. However, if there is evidence
that the piece has been trimmed for binding, the difference may not be significant.
If you are not certain whether the difference is significant, check with your trainer
or with the principal cataloguer. (Note that you only need to measure the height
of the piece if you suspect that it may differ from the 300 $c by over 2 cm.)
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(Cf. Part II.C.4, on editing accompanying material information)
The presence or absence of accompanying material does not prevent a match.
The accompanying material could be described in a 300 $e subfield, a 500 notes
field, or a separate record. If the record indicates accompanying material that does
not accompany our piece, check to see whether we have received that material,
including a TULANET search in case it has been entered onto a different record.
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