Being in the middle of a project to catalog all the brief listed titles in
our own catalog, my recomendation would be just to wait until the
cataloging it done.  Otherwise you are essentialling doing the same
searching twice.  And knowing how many title changes can happen to one
run, I would hate to do each one of them twice.

--Mary Quoting Amanda Murphy <amurphy@COURT.STATE.IL.US>:

> I've been updating my library's union list of periodicals on OCLC
> (which it needed very badly) and reconciling our holdings list to the
> union list.  Currently, our periodical holdings are not included in
> our online catalog, and the only method we use to list all of our
> holdings is a paper list that is simply posted on our website.  Over
> the years, certain title changes have been lost, forgotten, or
> possibly never noted on the paper list.  This has become painfully
> obvious since I've been working with the union list which does list
> our holdings under the preceding or succeeding titles.
>
> My question is how much updating should be done to the paper list?
> Should I add a separate entry for American Law Register & Review
> (1892-1897) whose preceding and succeeding titles were American Law
> Register?  Or could I just add a note to the entry for American Law
> Register that it was also know as the American Law Register & Review?
>  There have been several titles already that have had this problem,
> and I'm not even through the B's yet.
>
> I should add that eventually our holdings will be added to the
> catalog, hopefully within the next year (hopefully being the key
> word!).  Should I just wait on updating the details of the list until
> then?
>
> Any and all help, advice, ect. would be much appreciated.
>
> Amanda Murphy
> Serials Librarian
> Supreme Court of Illinois Library
> 200 E. Capitol
> Springfield IL, 62701
> (217) 782-5287

Mary Bailey
redhead@ksu.edu
Serials Manager
Kansas State University Libraries
Manhattan, KS 66506