How to reference volumes against each other ?

[Alex]

Hi,

There are separate entries:

1)
Собрание сочинений в 4 томах (комплект)
by Sergei Dovlatov, Сергей Довлатов

2)Собрание сочинений в 4 томах. Том 3 (Сергей Довлатов. Собрание сочинений в 4 томах)
by Sergei Dovlatov, Сергей Довлатов

3)Собрание сочинений в 4 томах. Том 4 (Сергей Довлатов. Собрание сочинений в 4 томах)
by Sergei Dovlatov, Сергей Довлатов

4) Собрание сочинений в 4 томах. Том 2 (Сергей Довлатов. Собрание сочинений в 4 томах)
by Sergei Dovlatov, Сергей Довлатов

Should those be pointing as a reference (I do not mean to combine those entries) to each other ?
If yes, how one (librarian) does it ?

PS The same situation is true for Собрание сочинений в 3 томах (комплект)
by Sergei Dovlatov, Сергей Довлатов

PPS Should (could) Собрание сочинений в 4 томах and Собрание сочинений в 3 томах reference each other ?
If yes, how one (librarian) does it ?

[rivka, Former Moderator]

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[Cait]

The problem with using series for "collected works" volumes is that that's essentially a publisher's collection. If one volume of the collected works happens to be combinable with a standalone edition of something, we don't want the standalone to be in the collected works series, do we? Or do we? Is a "collected works" different from a multi-author publisher set?