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| Abstract: | This article presents data determined from a study made of the major national bibliographies of Western Europe, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand with regard to the information that they provide on periodicals and monographic series. Frequently in acquisitions work the national bibliographies must be consulted for the verification of new periodical titles and for the verification of monographic series and their constituent volumes. For a librarian the recurrent task of verifying these works through the bibliographies can be an arduous one, since the various bibliographies differ greatly in the extent to which they provide data on periodicals and series. Since the main listing and index arrangements of many of the national bibliographies are often complex, and since there are to data no guides available that graphically illustrate these arrangements and indicate what data the bibliographies provide or do not provide on periodicals and series, the author constructed charts to illustrate (a) what data are provided by the bibliographies and (b) how these data may be accessed in the bibliographies, namely, which indexes or main listings should first be consulted. It is hoped that this information will be of value to librarians in their daily work with these important tools. |
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