Wow – way back when, I was taught there was one way and one way only to enter holdings data (for the example below):

v.1-10 (2000-2009)

 

OR

 

v.1-v.10:no.3 (2000-2009:Apr.)  if missing last part of v.10

 

OR

 

v.1-v.10:no.3, no.5-6 (2000-2009:Apr., Oct.-Dec.)  <- actually a little sloppy, ideally v.10:no.5-6 should be on 2^nd line.

 

Condense what you can, elaborate if partial, volume, enumeration, year, month in order (or Bd., Ann., iss., etc.).  Use 853/863 as much as possible, only use 866 if extensive, ‘broken’ holdings.

 

No wonder it can be tough for patrons (and sometimes us) to make sense of serial holdings.

 

Miss those days, but I’m an old…

 

Kelly

 

Kelly Joyce

Director of the Duggan Library

Hanover College

Hanover, IN 47243

(812) 866-7160

 

 

These standards are for the birds!! What’s with the one letter abbreviations that are only used in the library world?? Great for the common man to understand and what’s with putting the volume before the year? Every filing practice puts brackets and numbers before letters…..

 

(2000) vol. 1, no. 1-(2009) vol. 10, no. 6

 

 

 

v.21, n.1 (1999) or if no number v.1 (2000)

 

 

Abbigail Stauber

Library Technician

 

P: 724.847.6693  - F:  724.847.6687

 

acgregg@geneva.edu

GENEVA COLLEGE  3200 College Ave., Beaver Falls, PA 15010

 

 

 

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