There is another effect on CONSER, however, besides the effect on those
serials that are in series.  The other effect is that LC serials
catalogers will no longer create "collected set" records (i.e., catalog
some series as serials if they were not to be analyzed). 
I do not know what percentage of the CONSER database is represented
by LC serial records for series, nor whether those series are better
off being cataloged as monographs without controlled series access.  I
just wanted to indicate that this is also a change related to serials
cataloging and the CONSER database.

Regina Reynolds

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Les Hawkins wrote:

> Here is something we've noticed, in looking at stats on the CONSER file
> (1,064,324 records added and distributed as of Oct. 2005) about 5.5% of
> the records contain series statements. We understand that a much larger
> number of monograph bib records created by LC contain series statements.
> 
> Les
> 
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Antony Robert David Franks wrote:
> 
> > Interestingly enough, most of these are also CONSER
> > members--continuing evidence of the link between series and serials
> > work.
> > 
> > Anthony
> > 
> > >>> [log in to unmask] 06/07/06 5:57 PM >>>
> > We've been looking at PCC statistics for new series authorities and I 
> > thought I'd share my findings with everyone, so that we have a better 
> > understanding of what the PCC would be making up for now that LC has ceased creating series authorities.  I've looked at statistics for fiscal years 2004 and 2005, and 7 months of stats available for FY2006.
> > 
> > FY 2005 (Oct. 1, 2004-Sept. 30, 2005)
> > 
> > Total New Series Authorities Created: 18,945
> > =
> > Total LC New Series: 9,056  (48% of total)
> > +
> > Total PCC New Series: 9,889 (52% of total)
> >      DLC Coop Cat Team:   15 (0% of total; 0.2% of PCC)
> >      Other PCC:        9,874 (52% of total; 99.8% of PCC)
> > 
> > Total number of PCC libraries that created new series authorities in FY05: 102
> > 
> > Largest creators of new series authorities among PCC libraries in FY05:
> > 
> > Arizona State U (AzTeS)  1347
> > Indiana U (InU)           815
> > U of Chicago (ICU)        485
> > Brigham Young (UPB)       470
> > Yale (CtY)                393
> > Cornell (NIC)             344
> > U of Florida (FU)         316
> > Harvard (MH)              314
> > Princeton (NjP)           269
> > Northwestern (IEN)        262
> > Vanderbilt (TNJ)          241
> > 
> > ---------------
> > 
> 

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