Robert,

   I posted your question to Serialst and received similar replies as
I did on Autocat.  The consensus is that your technical monitor is
following an old, out-of-date rule/procedure that is no longer
documented So you entered the 362 correctly the first time.  The
current rules clearly say to transcribe the enumeration and
chronology as you find them on the issue being consulted.

-- Mitch

Date:    Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:37:29 -0500
From:    Robert K Koepke <KoepkeR@gao.gov>
Subject: Format of 362 for ceased serials

A question has come up about the proper format for the dates of
publication (362 field) for a serial which has ceased publication.

For the title in question, I entered the 362 as: Vol. 1, no. 1 (winter
1959)-v. 39, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1997).  However, our technical monitor
remembers being told that when all issues of a volume have been
published (this was a bimonthly title), that it should be formatted with
the volume information only (i.e., Vol. 1 (1959)-v. 39 (1997)).

I can't find anything mentioning this as a rule or practice in AACR2 or
in the AUTOCAT archives.

Can anyone shed some light onto this issue?

Robert K. Koepke
Library Support Services
Government Accountability Office
441 G St. NW
Rm. 7435
Washington, D.C. 20548
Phone: 202.512.9755
E-mail: KoepkeR@gao.gov

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