Thats true, this is another impact. Looks like about 4% of all CONSER bib
records are coded type of continuing resource "m" monographic series, if
thats an indicator. Also, I should make clear, like the 5.5% of CONSER
records that contain series statements, these numbers from CONSER file
stats refer to records from all CONSER institutions, not just LC- so I
don't have the subsets from LC.

Les

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Regina Reynolds wrote:

> 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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