Information forthcoming
Excerpt from notice sent to Collection Development staff from ITS (via hl-its-bibliographers list):
Changes to the ITS workflow associated with processing monographs that are published as part of numbered series:
- The practice of creating local series authority records (SARs) will be discontinued.
- Instead, we will rely on national-level SARs, and we will contribute national-level SARs for series standing orders and series standing orders on approvals.
- All monographs that are published as part of numbered series will include the transcribed form of the series title as designated by the publisher, appearing in the 490 field.
- Catalog records for monographs that are acquired through a series standing order will additionally include a controlled series tracing through the 830 field.
- The absence of a series authority record or absence of an active series standing order signifies ‘Series Record Not Kept’ (SRNK) status.
- The practice of staff routinely pulling monographs out of the Acquisitions workflows to elicit a bibliographer’s series standing order decision will be discontinued.
- Bibliographers should continue to communicate interest in establishing a series standing order or series standing order on approval when identified through scoping materials or other means employed to learn of new and important numbered series.