<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-:hb.co" class="gmail-tL8wMe gmail-EMoHub" style="text-align:left" dir="ltr">Thank you so much for your prompt reply.<br><br></span><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:12.8px" face="georgia, serif"><b>Raghav Arora</b></font><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="georgia, serif">Sophomore, M.Sc (Hons) Chemistry BE Electrical and Electronics Engineering</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="georgia, serif">Contact : (+91) 9897597761</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="mailto:raghavarora999@yahoo.in" rel="noreferrer" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Personal Email</a> | <a href="mailto:f20171016@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in" rel="noreferrer" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">University Email</a><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/raghav-arora-9820a648/" rel="noreferrer" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> |  <a href="https://github.com/RAraghavarora/" target="_blank">GitHub</a> <br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div><font color="#888888"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(253,175,23)">▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(117,195,233)">▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(237,27,36)">▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄</span></font></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div><font color="#666666"><b>Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani</b></font></div><div><font color="#666666">Pilani campus,</font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Rajasthan-333031</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 8:47 PM Hernandez, Heather <<a href="mailto:heather_hernandez@nps.gov">heather_hernandez@nps.gov</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default">> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Even this query gives certain ambiguous values like 'SM', 'BM', 'Q', etc.</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">> What do these values mean?</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">My guess is that the one & two letter values are abbreviations, e.g.:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">SM = Semimonthly</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">BM = Bimonthly</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Q = Quarterly</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">0 = Irregular...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Current cataloging under RDA (Resource Description and Access) avoids abbreviations because they can be very ambiguous and confusing, so those abbreviations might be able to be upgraded to the full words, if that is what those abbreviations stand for.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">There is also a place for codes for frequencies in a MARC21 record, field 008 position 18 in Continuing Resources records:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd008s.html" target="_blank">https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd008s.html</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Perhaps those values in your records might help?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Cheerio!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">h2</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-8705307032551036746gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>Heather Hernandez (she, her, hers)<br>Technical Services Librarian<br>San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center<br></div><div>2 Marina Blvd., Bldg. E, 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA  94123-1284<br></div><div dir="ltr">415-561-7032, <a href="mailto:heather_hernandez@nps.gov" target="_blank">heather_hernandez@nps.gov</a><br>Library catalog: <a href="http://keys.bywatersolutions.com/" target="_blank">http://keys.bywatersolutions.com/</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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