Scope: AACR2 and RDA define a serial as "a continuing resource issued in a succession of discrete parts, usually bearing numbering, that has no predetermined conclusion." For more discussion, see CONSER Cataloging manual, Module 2.
Contact: Sarah Ross Laura Wright
Unit: Cataloging
Date last reviewed: 09/09/2019
Date of next review: September 2020
OCLC review: updated 11/12/19
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Criteria for Determining Whether a Publication is a Serial
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- When catalogers identify items as serials, usually they cannot just change the format on Voyager and catalog them as serials they must be cataloged using a serial record from OCLC (BLvl=s). Because of continual receipt implications, titles to be cataloged (or recataloged) as serials must be returned to the serials problem shelf for preliminary serials treatment. If the cataloger is certain that the selector does not have a continuation in mind, for instance if the serial is long dead, an exception may be made.
- Place the issues along with all documentation on the shelf labeled "Problems" on the Serials Receiving Unit shelves. Include a problem flyer with your name to facilitate feedback. The phrase "To be cataloged by [your name]" may be added.
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