Serial Publications in the Library Holdings: the “Eternal” Question of Identification

The article examines the issues related to such an intricate element of the document flow as serial publications, in particular, the continuing ones. This problem is worth considering because the flow of serial publications, being an important source of scientific information, has a permanent tendency to a progressive growth in numbers. Moreover, due to the development of new technologies, serials are actively turning from traditional printed form to the new ones, for example, CD-ROM or on-line access. All this brings some challenges for librarians. The correctness of identification of publications in the process of stocks generation affects the important technological activities, relating to their selection, description, organization, tracking completeness of their receipt and refection in catalogues, as well as their further use. To maintain the proper quality of serials stock generation, the State Public Scientific-Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of theRussianAcademyof Sciences works out and regularly renovates technological documentation regulating the processes of work with these publications. The ideological and technological solutions include the elaboration of a standpoint that allows determining the type of publications, the permanent adjustment of the criteria for serials evaluation and selection, the ability to change on the stage of current acquisitions the area of publications entering the total library stock. This made it possible to regulate significantly the stock structure. 

The task of optimizing the reader’s search is solved by means of transferring (since 1991) of serial publications’ bibliographic records, according to the formal identifier (pressmark), from the Electronic Catalogue of Books to the Electronic Catalogue of Journals, now titled “The Electronic Catalogue of Periodical and Continuing Publications”. The electronic reference and search system of the State Public Scientific-Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of theRussianAcademyof Sciences can be further improved for serials by filling with data on the retro-part of the collection of continuing publications. The nearest circle of tasks for the library specialists is supposed to include the working out of a strategy on unifying the accounting of serials.

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