Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 12:59:55 -0600 (MDT)
From: YVONNE STROUP <YSTROUP@alexandria.lib.utah.edu>
Subject: RE: Classifying Periodicals (Angelina Joseph)

We are in the process of classifying our periodicals in preparation
for moving into a new building expansion.  *Most* of our serials have
been classified for many, many years.   The periodicals are now
shelved in alphabetical order by the main entry of whatever rules
were inforce at the time the title was first received by the library.
 This means it may be shelved under a corporate author but listed in
the catalog under a title main entry.  This has made for a
multiplicity of "shelved as" notes.  We've never had the money to
rebind or relabel.  One of the main reasons we used in deciding to
classify the periodicals was to get rid of the "shelved by" notes.
The other main reason was that the complete run of a journal could be
in one place on the shelves.  There were other reasons also, but this
addresses the points in your question.

> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 11:07:22 -0600
> From: AGJ <9725JOSEPHA@VMS.CSD.MU.EDU>
> Subject: Classifying periodicals
>
> Hi Serials Catalogers in Law Libraries,
> Those libraries which classify their serials and periodicals, do
> you put the continues and continued by titles together by one
> call number order?

  Or do you classify them, but shelve them
> alphabetically by title, so that if some body has a citation for
> the title, he or she can go to the title without looking in the
> catalog (online or card)?

Why would you assign a call number and then shelve alphabetically by
title?  There seems to be a contradiction there.  Having spent the
majority of my time during the last six or so months in assigning
call numbers to our now unclassified journals I would be very unhappy
if all that work were ignored.

Yvonne Stroup
Serials Cataloger
Marriott Library
University of Utah
ystroup@alexandria.lib.utah.edu