When I was at Adelphi University, we had a staff member sit
down with drawers from the Kardex and set up the publication
patterns. This seemed to work well for most of the journals.
Some cleanup was needed (of course!) and there were some
titles that we couldn't input from the kardex, but this got us
going, and most of the information was reliable.

Judy Schneider
US GAO Library
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