You might try directing her to Serials Review (Elsevier) or Serials
Librarian (Haworth).  In fact, I recently completed an article for
Serials Librarian on the evolution of the definition of a serial for a
section of an upcoming issue.  Jim Cole is the editor and can tell you
when that overview section will be published.

Aline

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Carrie Eastman wrote:

>Due to restructuring I have a new supervisor and she has made a very
>interesting request which I thought I would pose here, as many of us
>would be interested and it may spark an interesting discussion.  In the
>past she has not done in-depth work with serials and expressed a desire
>to be brought up to speed on the state of serials today.  She isn't
>looking for anything too detailed, rather she would like the "executive
>summary."  Clearly a tricky request to fill since serials is so
>multi-faceted.  So, my question is, where would one go to obtain such
>information?  I'm going to assume that there is not one place.  Could
>anyone recommend journals, articles, websites, or books that may help me
>bring her up to speed in a broad way?
>
>Carrie S. Eastman
>Serials Specialist
>Wheelock College Library
>132 The Riverway
>Boston, MA 02215
>617.879.2223
>ceastman@wheelock.edu
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