Serials and Supplements
LCCS Training Sessions
OSU
Aug. 2007
Serials
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Definition: A continuing resource issued in a
succession of discrete parts, usually bearing
numbering, that has no predetermined conclusion.
Examples of serials include journals, magazines,
electronic journals, continuing directories, annual
reports, newspapers, and monographic series.
(AACR2, 2002 rev., 2005 update)
Captions for serials appear in many forms in LCCS:
Periodicals
Periodicals and societies
Periodicals, societies, congresses, serial collections
Using the Periodicals Class
Number
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Use for all serials: periodicals,
numbered monographic series classed
together, topical serial society
publications, yearbooks
Do not use class numbers for yearbooks
as they are obsolete and will be
removed from the class schedules
Completing the Serial Call
Number
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Serial call numbers do not include a date
Issues are distinguished by the addition of
volume designation (caption) and numbering
Caption and numbering appears in serial
bibliographic record (field 362 in MARC21)
Example: Journal of the American Chemical Society
QD1 .A55 v.92 no.11-14
Numbered Monographic Series
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Series may be “classed together” or “classed
separately”
Decision on how to class is a professional
decision considering how collection will be
used and staffing
Classed together reduces workload since
classification of individual volumes is avoided
Classed separately places works on the
same topic next to each other on shelf
Numbered Monographic Series
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Series with a narrow topical focus are often classed
together
Volumes in classed-together series (often called
“analyzed series”) have same class and book
numbers
Individual volumes are assigned a caption and
number
Examples:
v. 1
no. 3
Bd. 52
v. 10, no. 6
T. 123
Numbered Monographic Series
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Volumes in classed-separately series
receive call numbers like any other
monographs
Supplementary Works
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A supplementary work is a separately
issued subordinate work which continues or
complements a previously issued work.
A supplement generally has a formal
relationship with the original work expressed
by common authorship, a common title or
subtitle, and/or a stated intention to continue
or supplement the original.
Supplements, appendices, indexes, addenda
Types of Supplement
Treatment
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Supplements cataloged separately
Supplements covered by a statement in
the physical description of a record
Indexes
Supplements cataloged
separately
Supplements to monographs receive the
same call number plus the designation
“Suppl.”
Example: HD9211.C55 W55 2006 Suppl.
 Multiple supplements receive successive
numbers: Suppl., Suppl. 2, Suppl. 3,
etc.
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Supplements cataloged
separately (cont.)
Supplements to a numbered volume of
a monographic series add “Suppl.” to
call number
Example: HD28.Y555 vol. 55 Suppl.
 Supplements to serials are treated as
distinct works and receive their own call
number
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Supplements Covered By A Statement In
The Physical Description Of A Record
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Assign the call number of the original
work and add an appropriate
designation.
use Suppl. if no other term available.
Supplements Covered By A Statement In
The Physical Description Of A Record
(cont.)
Example:
HG4026.A745 1983
Archer, Stephen Hunt.
Financial management ... c1983.
xix, 764 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + tables.
For supplement:
HG40026.A745 1983 tables
Indexes
Class indexes with the original
publication by adding Index to the call
number
Examples:
GA192.W47
Information bulletin…
GA192.W47 Index Index to the
Information bulletin…
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