1. EXERCISE: Identify Group 1 Entities -- Answers
1. Printed-text-on-paper Serials Librarian, v. 62, no. 1-4 (NASIG 2011 proceedings)
Entity: manifestation
2. My copy of Serials Librarian, v. 62, no. 1-4 (NASIG 2011 proceedings)
Entity: item
3. Online Serials Librarian (all issues)
Entity: manifestation
4. A government agency’s idea to issue an annual report on its activities
Entity: work
5. That agency’s intent to issue the annual report as an English text
Entity: expression
6. That agency’s intent to issue a translation in Spanish
Entity: expression
7. An international organization’s intent to issue a semiannual research report on hunger
Entity: work
8. That organization’s decision to issue that semiannual research report simultaneously in
separate Arabic, French, German, and Spanish texts
Entity: expressions
9. That organization’s decision to publish the semiannual research report online, on CD-
ROMs, and in microfiche
Entity: manifestations
10. Your library’s CD-ROM of that’s organization’s research report in English
Entity: item
EXERCISE: New Description/New Work -- Answers
1. 245 00 $a Easy cooking.
 Easy cooking recipes
new description? yes new work? yes
2. 245 00 $a Handbook of mountain wildflowers.
 Mountain wildflowers handbook
new description? no
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2. 3. 245 02 $a The LLCV bulletin.
310 ## $a Monthly
 now published quarterly
new description? no
4. 245 00 $a American history.
250 ## $a Student edition
 Student and teacher edition
new description? yes new work? no
5. 245 00 $a Bicycle trails.
250 ## $a Oregon/Washington edition
 Oregon and Washington edition
new description? no
6. 245 00 $a Hong Kong business directory.
300 ## $a volumes
 now issued only on CD-ROMs
new description? yes new work? no
7. 110 1# $a Colorado. $b Division of Labor.
245 10 $a Biennial report.
 Annual report
new description? yes new work? yes
8. 110 1# $a Wyoming. $b Division of Labor.
245 10 $a Biennial report.
 now issued as Annual report of the Division of Labor and
Employment
new description? yes new work? yes
9. 130 0# $a Study (Consumer Affairs Bureau)
245 10 $a Study / Consumer Affairs Bureau.
300 ## $a volumes
 now issued only online
new description? yes new work? no
10. 130 0# $a Bulletin (University of Chicago. Physics Institute)
245 10 $a Bulletin / $c Physics Institute, University of Chicago.
300 ## $a volumes
 now issued only online with title Research bulletin
new description? yes new work? yes
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3. 11. 245 00 $a Highway truck accident statistics / $c U.S. Dept. of Transportation.
 now issued by U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Department
of Transportation
new description? no
12. 245 00 $a Hong Kong business directory.
300 ## $a CD-ROMs
 now issued only as updating database
new description? yes new work? no
13. 130 0# $a Monthly housing statistics (ABC Corporation)
245 10 $a Monthly housing statistics / $c ABC Corporation.
 now issued by DEF Corporation
new description? yes new work? yes
14. 245 00 $a Decorating for the holidays.
260 ## $a Kansas City : $b Home Crafts Pub. Co., $c 2003-
 now published by Home Decorations Incorporated
new description? no
EXERCISE: Serial Creator -- Answers
1. “Journal of Immigration Research” (semiannual publication issued by the Immigration
Law Society and published by S & L Publishing Company)
Creator? No
2. “Felicia Says” (blog of dated daily postings by Felicia Taylor)
Creator? Yes: Felicia Taylor (likely a collaborative work (her posts +
comments from others) but she would be the “primarily responsible” creator)
3. “Hansson Family Newsletter : news of events, births, deaths, and weddings gathered and
prepared by Theodore Hansson and Kathryn Becker” (printed in Delaware by Dover
Press)
Creator? No/Yes (difficult to know from this information if family as a whole
is responsible for the serial; unusual for family as a whole to be responsible for a
published resource – more common for archival materials)
4. “2008 annual report of the Nashville Office of Tourism” (report prepared by Carmen
Díaz, press officer for the Office of Tourism)
Creator? Yes: Office of Tourism
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4. 5. “Annual report on U.S. student loans” (report prepared by the National Education
Association; published by the U.S. Department of Education)
Creator? No
6. “Election reform : a bibliography” (annual publication “by Simon Stone, Office of
Research, Federal Election Commission”)
Creator? No
7. “Proceedings” (Fourth Annual Symposium on Climate Change in North America; April
22, 2010; Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Creator? Yes: Annual Symposium on Climate Change in North America
8. “Immigration reform : recommendations for action by the Immigration Law Society and
the Foundation for Immigration Research”
Creator? Yes, two: Immigration Law Society; Foundation for Immigration
Research
9. “Laws enacted by the Iowa Legislature as of July 2, 2010”
Creator? Yes: Iowa Legislature
10. “Graphic Novels for Generation Y” (no. 1 with title “Super-Graduate Makes A Mint on
Internet Startup” by Suzanne Brady; no. 2 with title “Super-Graduate Retires to Bali” by
Harlan D. Fletcher)
Creator? No
11. “Membership directory of the Society for Forensic Medicine”
Creator? Yes: Society for Forensic Medicine
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