Hi Patricia,

Sometimes the U.S. ISSN Center (formerly called NSDP) receives incorrect information about a title being ceased.

If you send scans of the front matter (cover, title pages, copyright page, masthead) from the issue following the one we said was the last, plus a similar scan of the front matter from the most recent issue, we can open and update the record.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

Regina Romano Reynolds
Head, ISSN Publisher Liaison Section
Director, U.S. ISSN Center
Library of Congress
(202) 707-6379 (voice)
(202) 707-0973 (fax)
rrey@loc.gov

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Patricia Thompson
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 3:31 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] How to correct an nsdp serial bib record?

I have a serial title for which I found a bib record in WorldCat, but the record is closed out, saying that the title “Ceased with issue of July  1984.” I have issues continuing from that date all the way through 2008 (with some gaps), all with the same title and publisher.

The bib record is # 9201709 with ISSN 0746-1194, and has  042  pcc ǂa nsdp.
I don’t think just sending some scanned copies of the issues to OCLC will suffice to get the record changed. Am I right? How do I correct it?

Patricia Thompson
Assistant University Librarian for Resource Management Services DuPont Library University of the South Sewanee, TN 37383
931-598-1657
pthompso@sewanee.edu