I was thinking about accuracy also.

If you use a list of published issues that you find somewhere, you will still need to compare that to what's on the shelf if you want a correct display of your holdings.

This might be a good "switch" for a student otherwise working at checking online access :-)

Jeanette L. Skwor
Cofrin Library, Serials Dept.
UW-Green Bay
2420 Nicolet Drive
Green Bay, WI 54311

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Wilma Dague
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 4:54 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Seeking sources of information for periodicals -- list of issues published by year

WE look it up on our OPAC and we also keep a card catalogue. These are not as accurate as actually looking at the journals though.

Best regards,

Wilma Weant Dague
Serials  Coordinator
Benedictine College Library
1020 North 2nd St.
Atchison, KS 66002

(913) 360-7610
wdague@benedictine.edu

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Melinda Shedlarz
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 12:26 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Seeking sources of information for periodicals -- list of issues published by year

Good afternoon all,

I am in the beginning stages of an inventory of the periodical collection in
the company library I manage.  I would like to create detailed records of
our holdings, including volume and issue numbers for each serial.  I know
that I could find this out by looking directly in each issue, but is there
somewhere else that I might find this information? Here is what I would
really like: a list by year of issues published for each periodical title I
have, including the corresponding volume and/or issue number for each item.
Is there anywhere where this information is gathered? I would so love it if
there was, but I am not too hopeful.

Thanks in advance,

Yours truly,
Melinda J. Shedlarz