1.6. GENERAL RULES FOR DESCRIPTION, PUBLISHER’S SERIES AREA

1.6A. Preliminary rule

1.6A1. Scope.

Use this area only for describing an item bearing a publisher’s or artist’s series title. Do not record here information about an archival series.¹

1.6A2. Punctuation

For instructions on the use of spaces before and after prescribed punctuation, see 1.0C.
Precede this area by a full stop, space, dash, space or start a new paragraph.
Enclose each publisher’s series statement in parentheses.
Precede each parallel title by an equals sign.
Precede other title information by a colon.
Precede the first statement of responsibility by a diagonal slash.
Precede each subsequent statement of responsibility by a semicolon.
Precede the numbering within a publisher’s series by a semicolon.

1.6A3. Sources of information.

Give in this area information taken from the chief source of information or any other source prescribed for this area in the .0B rules of the following chapters. For chief sources of information prescribed for each level of description see the .0B rules in the relevant chapter for the material to which the unit being described belongs.

Enclose information supplied from any other source in square brackets unless instructed to do otherwise in specific rules.

1.6B. Title proper of publisher’s series

1.6B1.

At the item level of description, transcribe a title proper of the publisher’s series as instructed in 1.1B1.

Canadian views

Getting under way

Hoitt’s artistic series

Climo’s stereographs of New Brunswick

1.6C. Parallel title of publisher’s series

1.6C1.

Transcribe parallel titles of a publisher’s series as instructed in 1.1D.

Guardians of the North = Protecteurs du Nord

1.6D. Other title information of publisher’s series

1.6D1.

Transcribe other title information of a publisher’s series as instructed in 1.1E and only if considered necessary for identifying the publisher’s series.

Stereoscopic views along the Canadian Pacific Railway : from Montreal through the Rockies

1.6E. Statements of responsibility relating to publisher’s series

1.6E1.

Transcribe explicit statements of responsibility appearing in conjunction with a formal title proper of a publisher’s series as instructed in 1.1F and only if considered necessary for identifying the publisher’s series.

Series 1894 / by Strohmeyer & Wyman

1.6F. Numbering within publisher’s series

1.6F1.

Give the numbering of the item within a publisher’s series in the terms given in the item. Use abbreviations as instructed in appendix B and numerals as instructed in appendix C.

The scenery of the northern lakes of Canada ; 73

Studies of Joyce Marie Coldwell ; no. 101

1.6F2.

If the item has a designation other than a number, give the designation as found.

; Tab. 56

; pl. A

; 1971