Serials received for cataloging after 1981 have been classified for the most part in Serial Coll (c.f. section below on pColl, etc.).
The Cutter line is constructed using the first two letters of the main entry (except when the main entry consists of only one letter) and the Cutter tables (examples Serial Coll AP8945; Serial Coll A12). Some older serials reclassified from Coll (see below) still have only one letter at the beginning of the Cutter line, which was an earlier practice for all titles (see example Coll B65834). Likewise, some older serials may have several lower case letters after the Cutter, also an earlier practice (see examples Serial Coll AM562per and Coll AM562pot).
Identical serial titles receive uniform title qualifiers as specified by the Library of Congress Rule Interpretations and are then Cuttered to file alphabetically by the qualifier (example 1-SIZE Serial Coll MA8821, Serial Coll MA8822, Serial Coll MA883).
Reprints receive a lower case "a" at the end of the Cutter line (examples Serial Coll B65834, Serial Coll B65834a).
Standard Brown University Library conventions for oversize designation (i.e., 1-SIZE, 2-SIZE) are used (example 1-SIZE Serial Coll MA8821).
If a serial changes title and the volume and/or chronological designation starts over again, a new Serial Coll number is assigned to the later title. If the title changes and the numbering continues uninterrupted, the call number for the earlier title may be used for the later title at the cataloger's discretion (example 1-SIZE p-Coll BR628; Serial Coll KU35, Serial Coll KY54, Serial KY541). If a title splits into several new titles, new call numbers are assigned to each new title..
Do not classify any newly received Harris serials in Coll.
Past practice (pre-1980?) had been to classify Harris serials in "Coll." During the 1980s, various attempts were made to identify those serials and reclassify them to Serial Coll, although some titles with active subscriptions continued to be added to the "Coll" sheet shelflists into the 1990s. Before the Coll shelflist was sent to OCLC for retrospective conversion in the mid-1990s, probable serials were identified and OCLC was asked to input the call number as Serial Coll. Eventually the pieces themselves will be relabeled and reshelved.
Newly received Harris serials appropriate to these collections may be classified as such instead of putting them into Serial Coll. The same conventions for the Cutter line and oversize designation as in Serial Coll apply.
Serials issued by students at institutions of higher learning are classifed in LH1. The first Cutter is for the institution, the second for the main entry (examples 1-SIZE LH1 C68 E2, 1-SIZE LH1 H7 P8, 1-SIZE LH1 K5 H5). Publications by students at Canadian institutions of higher learning were classed in LH3 (example LH3 Q27 Q4). Publications of high school students were classed in LH11 (example LH11 J3 S7).
Prefer Serial Coll for newly received serials in these categories.
Follow conventions established for non-print monographs.
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