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unnumbered series cataloguing (Peter Hisking) Marcia Tuttle 21 Apr 1993 03:06 UTC

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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 15:43:52 +1200
From: "Peter Hosking, Serials Dept. University of Canterbury, N.Z."
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Subject: unnumbered series cataloguing

Thanks to everyone who replied to my query about this. Generally it seems
to be agreed that unnumbered series do not technically meet the AACR2
definition of a serial and therefore should not be catalogued as serials.
Indicating holdings would also be a problem. Jim Cole points out, however,
that ISBD (S) contains an e.g. illustrating the cataloguing of an
unnumbered series (in Appendix C of the 1988 rev. ed.

Peter Hosking / University of Canterbury Library, N.Z.