Multiple issues!
An ARLIS/UK & Ireland serials
cataloguing event.

Contents for today:
• cataloguing serials
• creating predictions
• oddities
• serials promotion
• Q+A

• cataloguing serials
In a nutshell:
-specificdata for fixedfields
-specificvariable fields
-standardRDA rules apply
-recordingholdings

Cataloguingserials: the fixed fields
Leader:
Bibliographicallevel‘s’
008:
Typeof date, current or ceased
Frequency
Regularity
006/007:
for electronic resources

Cataloguingserials: the variable fields
022 issn
310 current frequency
321 former frequency
362 dates of publication
515 numbering peculiarities
588 source of description
600/651 subject headings [|vPeriodicals.]
780 precedingentry
785 succeedingentry
856 electronic location/access

Cataloguingserials: cataloguer vs
OPAC view

Cataloguingserials: recording holdings

• creating predictions
In a nutshell:
-serialsmodule?
-enumeration
-pattern
-checkingin

Creating predictions: enumeration

Creating predictions: pattern

Creating predictions: full example

• oddities
In a nutshell:
-not all serialsmay look like one
-local practicesmayapply

Oddities: monographsin series

Oddities: monographsin series

Oddities: auction catalogues
Oddities: single copies

• serials promotion
In a nutshell:
-specialsearches
-subject guides/readinglists
-QR codes for e-journals

Serials promotion: special searches

Serials promotion: subject guides

Serials promotion: QR codes

• Training resources
 Ed Jones’ RDA and serials cataloguing, Facet, 2013
(new edition 2024)
 LC/CONSER cataloguing checklists (2012)
 Libraries own cataloguing manuals online

Thanks! Questions?