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   Series classed together and series classed separately  

   Class volumes in a numbered series individually, each according to its own subject, or as a whole (CUL calls this a "series classed together" while LC calls it a "series classified as a collection, analyzed in full" or, if the series is projected to include a finite number of volumes, an "analyzed multipart item".)

   If a series authority record already exists and indicates that the series is classed together (646 subfield c), you have the option to follow that decision. Use the call number given in the 050 of the series authority record or, if the call number is not recorded there, follow the treatment used on CUL holdings records of previous titles in the series. Long-established series may have a CUL standing order record with treatment information as well. If you suspect that a series may historically have been classed together at CUL even if the series authority record indicates a series classed separately, you may investigate CUL's holdings records and use the series classed call number, or you may class the title separately, whichever is easiest.  However, now that CUL policy follows LC in generally not tracing series, use of a series classed call number is less advisable.

   If the series title is new to CUL, classify the series separately.

   Do not add local treatment information to series authority records. If you are editing the authority record in any way, update the national record.

   Generally do not change a series treatment decision unless there is a serious problem with it. Note:  Exception rules in LTS Procedure #4 for particular series. However, give series decisions made by LC/DPCC special consideration, since they provide a large proportion of the copy used, and their decisions influence the decisions of other libraries. Therefore, catalogers may consider changing CUL classification decisions and call numbers to match those used by LC/DPCC, as follows:

   • If the CUL and LC/DPCC decisions do not match, you may choose to change the CUL decision to match the LC/DPCC decision, either from series classed together to series classed separately or vice versa.
   • If both CUL and LC/DPCC class a series together, you have the option of changing the CUL series classed call number to the LC/DPCC number.

    

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   Series classed together vs. multivolume monographs

   If one or more, but not all parts of a multivolume work also form part of a CUL series classed together, class the work separately, and not with the series classed together

   Example: Andersson, Efraim. Contribution ? l'ethnographie des Kuta. (Vol. 3: Occasional papers ; 15) (CUL call #: olin DT650.K8A54)

   For Olin Library, LTS treats the series, Occasional papers (Uppsala universitet. Institutionen for allman och jamforande etnografi) as a series classed together (at GN2.U68). However, since only v. 3 of this multivolume work forms part of the series classed together, the multivolume work is classed separately.

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