SERIALITY (SCTPG presentation, March 15, 2000, Sara Shatford Layne)

Proposed Definitions (or Re-definitions):

Bibliographic resource. A manifestation of a work that forms the basis for bibliographic description. A bibliographic resource may be in any medium or combination of media and may be tangible or intangible.

Continuing resource. A bibliographic resource that is issued over time, usually with no predetermined conclusion. Continuing resources include serials and integrating resources.

Integrating resource. A bibliographic resource that is added to or changed by means of updates that do not remain discrete and are integrated into the whole. Examples include items that are loose-leaf for updating and Web sites.

Monograph. A non-serial item (i.e., an item either complete in one part or complete, or intended to be completed, in a finite number of separate parts).

A bibliographic resource that is complete or intended to be completed within a finite number of parts or within a fixed period of time.

Serial. A publication in any medium issued in successive parts bearing numeric or chronological designations and intended to be continued indefinitely. Serials include periodicals; newspapers; annuals (report, yearbooks, etc.); the journals, memoirs, proceedings, transactions, etc. of societies; and numbered monographic series.

A continuing resource in any medium issued in a succession of discrete parts, usually bearing numeric or chronological designations, that usually has no predetermined conclusion. Examples of serials include journals, magazines, electronic journals, directories, annual reports, newspapers, newsletters of an event, and monographic series.

Bibliography

Graham, Crystal. "What’s Wrong with AACR2: a Serials Perspective."

In The Future of the Descriptive Cataloging Rules: Papers from the ALCTS Preconference, AACR2000, American Library Association Annual Conference, Chicago, June 22, 1995. Edited by Brian E.C. Schottlaender. Chicago: American Library Association, 1998, p. 66-83.

Hirons, Jean, and Graham, Crystal. "Issues Related to Seriality"

presented at the International Conference on the Principles and Future Development of AACR, Toronto, Canada, October 23-25, 1997. Available in PDF format through: http://lcweb.loc.gov/acq/conser/aacr.html

Revising AACR2 to Accommodate Seriality: Report to the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR.

Prepared by Jean Hirons, CONSER Coordinator, Library of Congress with the assistance of Regina Reynolds and Judy Kuhagen (Library of Congress) and the CONSER AACR Review Task Force, April 1999. Available at: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/jsc/ser-rep0.html

Revising AACR2 to Accommodate Seriality: Rule Revision Proposals.

Prepared by Jean Hirons and members of the CONSER AACR Review Task Force. Submitted to the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR, February 2000.

And various documents at the CONSER web site: http://lcweb.loc.gov/acq/conser/serialty.html