The document provides guidelines for cataloging continuing resources such as serials and integrating resources. It describes the different types of continuing resources and outlines the areas of the bibliographic description including title, edition, numbering, publication details, physical description, and notes. Rules are provided for transcribing titles, statements of responsibility, edition information, numbering, publication details, and recording notes for both serials and integrating resources.

5. All issues or parts and any other source Standard number and terms of availability All issues or parts and any other source Note All issues or parts Series All issues or parts Physical description First or earliest issue or part First or earliest issue or part First and/or last issues or parts Publication, distribution, etc. Place & pub, distributor, etc. Place & manufacturer Dates First and/or last issues or parts for each system or sequence Numbering First or earliest issue or part Edition area First or earliest issue or part Title and statement of responsibility BASIS OF DESCRIPTION AREA All issues or parts and any other source Standard number and terms of availability All issues or parts and any other source Note All issues or parts Series All issues or parts Physical description First or earliest issue or part First or earliest issue or part First and/or last issues or parts Publication, distribution, etc. Place & pub, distributor, etc. Place & manufacturer Dates First and/or last issues or parts for each system or sequence Numbering First or earliest issue or part Edition First or earliest issue or part Title and statement of responsibility BASIS OF DESCRIPTION AREA

6. b). Integrating resources > base the description of an integrating resource, except the beginning date of publication, on the current iteration of that resource

7. All iterations and any other source Standard number and terms of availability All iterations and any other source Note Current iteration Series Current iteration Physical description Current iteration Current iteration First and/or last iterations Publication, distribution, etc. Place & pub, distributor, etc. Place & manufacturer Dates Current iteration Edition Current iteration Title and statement of responsibility BASIS OF DESCRIPTION AREA

10. Title page, other preliminaries, colophon Edition The whole resource Numbering Any source Standard number and terms of availability Any source Note Series title page, analytical page, cover, caption, masthead, editorial pages, colophon, rest of the resource Series The whole resource Physical description The whole resource Publication, distribution, etc. Title page Title and statement of responsibility PRESCRIBED SOURCES OF INFORMATION AREA

12. Standard Bibliographic Description

13. Extent of item (i.e., numbering of volumes) Illustrations Dimensions Physical description area Place of publication Publisher Date/s of publication Publication, distribution area Chronological/numeric designation Numbering area Edition statement Statement of responsibility relating to the ed. (unusual for serials) Edition area Title proper Other title information First statement of responsibility (less frequent for seals) Title and statement of responsibility are ELEMENTS INCLUDED IN EACH AREA AREA OF DESCRIPTION

14. ISSN Terms of availability Standard number and terms of availability Notes (in the order given in AARC2) Note area Series title Statement of responsibility relating to the series ISSN of the series Series numbering (very unusual for serials) Series area

15. GENERAL RULES

24. indicates CD-ROM product cdr indicates microfiche mfc indicates microfilm mf indicates number. Most abbreviation used are taken from AACR2, rev. no. indicates volume v. is used to separate the enumerative information (volume) from the chronological information (date) , indicates that the serial has ceased publication. It is always found at the end of a year or volume number. // indicates that the holdings are broken. They begin again with the volume or number that follows the semicolon ; indicates that the library has incomplete holdings for that volume or year [year or volume number] indicates that the first holdings go from the first date to the second ─ date indicates that the holdings continue to the present ─