Hello Karen,

If your library has a subscription to the monographic series, you will need the serials bibliographic record for the work of your Acquisitions staff.

Cataloging the individual issues on the serials bib record will mean that you cannot provide access to the individual titles that are unique to the issues.  How valuable is that access likely to be for your library's patrons?  Depending on that answer, it may make good sense to catalog the issues on the serials bib. record, thereby saving cataloger time & effort.

If the decision is to analyze the individual issues, then another question arises:
If the issues of a monographic series are analyzed, would those issues get quite varied call numbers?  (An example of this would be the Acta of a university.)
1) If yes, then the other extreme is more likely to be attractive.  By the 'other extreme' I mean classifying the issues separately, assigning a 'from-scratch' separate call number to each of them.
2) If, on the other hand, the issues would get call numbers that clustered together, then little specificity is gained by the effort of a cataloger assigning an individual call number to each issue.  (An example of this is a monographic series I dealt with where all of the issues were devoted to the history of one town.)  In this case, I made the series 'classed together' under one number, and the only element that is unique to the individual issue is the volume number at the end of the call number.

I hope this helps.

Carl

Carl Horne
Slavic and Central Eurasian Cataloger
 & NACO/SACO Liaison
Indiana University Library
Bloomington, IN  47405
812-856-0846

     

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Hello,

There is a CONSER record for Advances in botanical research with ISSN 0065-2296 and the note Vols. also have distinctive titles, and also a Series Authority Record for that title.

It seems that most issues have monograph records, but there are duplicate records with some not having 050s, or only classed as a collection 050s. I realize monographic series are generally classed separately now.

How do you usually decide in these cases whether to retain the serial record, or begin receiving issues as parts of a monographic series?

Thanks for any advice, Karen

Karen Jensen
Concordia University 
Montreal, Quebec