Hello Robert,
Thank you for replying. Others have sent me more or less the same response. The reason for my confusion is that rules seem to vary based on source. CONSER says not to add dates if you don't have the first/last issues, but RDA (2.8.6.5, scroll down) and DCRMS (4D4.2) say to add the dates in square brackets if they're ascertainable.

-Silvana


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] question about entering serial pub dates in the
260/264 field
From: "Robert J. Rendall" <rr2205@COLUMBIA.EDU>
Date: Wed, July 26, 2017 11:17 am
To: SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG

Hi Silvana -

You only enter dates in the 260/264 when you have the first and/or last issues in hand.  So in your situation, your 264 has no subfield $c, and the information you have goes in a 362 field:

362 1_ Began in 1786; ceased in 1865.

Robert Rendall
Principal Serials Cataloger
Original and Special Materials Cataloging, Columbia University Libraries
102 Butler Library, 535 West 114th Street, New York, NY 10027
tel.: 212 851 2449  fax: 212 854 5167

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Silvana Notarmaso <loni@mptek.net> wrote:
Hello all,
I am primarily a rare monograph and map cataloger, but occasionally I do serials too. But my experience is very limited and I always question my serial cataloging decisions and I usually find myself overwhelmed with doubts. I joined this list to seek the support I don't have at my job, so, please excuse my ignorance on the subject. One of the problems I have is I'm not quite sure how to enter dates in the 260/264 field when I'm pretty confident about the beginning and end dates but I don't actually have the first or last issues. From my research I determined that the beginning date is 1786 and that the end date for that title (before continued by another) is 1865. So, how should indicate this in the record? 

Thanks,
Silvana

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