From:   NAME: Sam A. Khosh-Khui
        FUNC: Library/Cataloging
        TEL: 2288                             <SK03 AT A1 AT SWT>
To:     BITNET%"SERIALST@UVMVM.BITNET"@MRGATE@NYSSA

        With regard to item record creation for serials, here at
        Southwest Texas State University, non periodical serials and
        serials that are issued annually or less frequently than annual
        are treated differently.  Current issues of periodicals and their
        bound volumes for 1980-   are kept in the PERIODICAL ROOM but the
        older issues are shelved in the stacks. In either case they are
        not generally circulated.  Other types of serials are kept either
        in the stacks or on Reference shelves.

        We create individual item record for each piece of a serial title
        if it is annual or has a frequency of less than annual with the
        appropriate location code and circulation status.  By doing so,
        holdings for all serials are known to patrons when they search a
        serial title in PAC.  However, for periodicals, i.e., any title
        which is published more than once a year, we create a generic
        item record for each title so that patrons would be able to
        locate them in PAC.  When the DRA Serials subsystem is
        operational, holdings for all periodical titles eventually will
        be added to the system.

        SK03@SWTEXAS

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        * Sam A. Khosh-khui                     BITNET: SK03@SWTEXAS  *
        * Serials Cataloger                      PHONE: 512/245-2288  *
        * Library, Room 218                        FAX: 512/245-3002  *
        * Southwest Texas State University                            *
        * San Marcos, Texas 78666-4604                                *
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