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The Law Library has a large range of materials which are treated as serials, including journals, law reports, annual statute volumes, and looseleafs. In most respects they are treated like serials elsewhere in the system, but there are certain differences which are described in this document.
New journals, and journal title changes, will be sent from Law directly to an LT5 with expertise in Law cataloguing. These will consist of one of the Serial Information slips, together with a recent issue or photocopies of the introductory material. (Recent issues should be done RUSH and mailed back to Law without processing.) If satisfactory copy with subject headings cannot be found, the titles should be passed to a librarian for completion.
New or changed annual volumes and looseleafs will come through the normal processing stream.
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Some law trade publishers issue numerous monographs, not looseleafs, on particular statutes or groups of statutes, annually or every few years. These are treated as serial publications. See for example:
| Annotated Immigration Act of Canada | KE4454.A315M37 |
| Annotated Police Services Act | KEO887.A31H35 |
Both of these titles are published by Carswell, one of the major Canadian law trade publishers.
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Although many loose-leaf volumes are essentially monographs which have been issued in loose-leaf to keep statute and case references up to date, in Law these types of materials have historically been catalogued in the serials format, and more recently as Integrating resources. Some of the Acquisition records and cataloguing copy for loose-leaf items may come coded as book records. These should be reformated as Integrating resources. See Types of Issuance. To reformat, change the Bibliographic Level in the Leader to i for Integrating resource, and then change Type of Continuing Resource in the 008 to l for Updating loose-leaf.
Monographs occasionally arrive unexpectedly in loose-leaf format; new editions of bound monographs are often changed to loose-leaf. Anything in loose-leaf format that is clearly going to be updated should be catalogued in Integrating resources format. However, the Law Library circulates these items, so the Item type should be Book.
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Serials such as newsletters, looseleafs, and annual statute volumes are classified using LC call numbers in the usual way.
Law reviews and other periodicals consisting of articles about the law are not classified (though if copy includes a call number it should be retained in the Bib record). Instead, periodicals receive a call number consisting only of the letters PER; the 852 field must be coded with first indicator 8.
Some of the older Law serial records include call number and holdings notes in the bibliographic record. If you encounter one of these, make sure the holdings information has been entered in an 866 field in the Holdings record, transferring it if necessary, and delete the note.
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Section 10, Subsection LAW, Part S3
Created February 14, 1997 by E. Read
Revised September 26, 2003 by D. Rutherford
Page maintained by Elizabeth A. Read, readel@queensu.ca. Created: 14/02/1997 Updated: 03-Feb-2004 05:26 PM