Advanced Serials Cataloging Workshop

Abstract

ABSTRACT This pre-conference covered all 10 sessions of the Serials Cataloging Cooperative Training Program Advanced Serials Cataloging Workshop. The workshop gave an overview of the bibliographic description of serials and explored the most common problems encountered in the cataloging of serials, focusing on print. Steve Shadle helped workshop attendees develop cataloger's judgment for decisions that need to be made in the cataloging of challenging serials, including when to treat a resource as a serial as opposed to a monograph or integrating resource. He discussed the title, numbering and publishing statement, main entry, and uniform titles for serials, pointing out the differences from monograph cataloging. He then discussed the more complicated elements of serials cataloging, such as notes, series, title changes, and linking fields, including those used for former and later title, translations, editions, supplements, and other related works.