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Resource Discovery and Management: Serials

This guide contains policies and procedures for the UW Libraries Resource Discovery and Management Division.

Ordering

New Serial Standing Orders

Ordering Single Volumes of E-Serials

Shelf Ready Verification Steps for New and Title Changed Periodicals
Steps to prepare newly cataloged titles and issues to the stacks.

Canceling Serials

Clean-up
Codes

Cancellation Clean-up
Serials Cancellations
Procedure for cancelling serial orders in Sierra

Codes for Canceling Periodicals Serials

Receiving Serials

Receiving
Opening and Sorting Mail

Periodical Check-In Manual

Periodical Check-In Manual

Bindery

Forms

Title Changes
Maintenance

Serial and Periodical Title Changes
Blue form

Serial - Periodical Maintenance
Yellow form

Transfers

WEST

WEST transfers

Serial A.Anals.and Cat Seps

Multi-Volume Monographs - Analyzed Serial
Serial Author Analytics and Cat Seps

Multi-Volume Monographs

Receiving Serial A.Anals and Cat. Seps.
Instructions on how to receive and check-in a.anals and cat. seps.
Serial Author Analytics
Creating purchase orders for serial a.anals
Creating purchase orders for cat seps

Withdrawals

Serial and Periodical Withdrawals

Reset Piece Count in Sierra each fiscal year

How to Reset the Piece Count in Sierra for Periodicals and Serials
Description of how to find the piece count and reset the count to zero at the end of each fiscal year.