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1philn
Edited: Jan 3, 2010, 8:11 pm

Does anyone catalog periodicals on LT? I ask because I have a few, both professional journals and more general interest, that I get now.

This may become more important as more and more are offered by the online sites or as an option from memberships in professional organizations.

2jasbro
May 22, 2010, 10:32 am

Hi, philn! I was wondering that myself just this morning, and did a "Search Talk" for the words "catalog periodicals" on the www.librarything/talk page. It pulled up four conversations going back to 2007, and your post too. Accordingly, I settled on cataloging a single-copy literary review with the periodical name followed by the single-volume title; the editor (since that's material to the way I'll use it); the contributors under "Other Authors" (because that's also important here); the particular issue date under "Publication Date"; the ISSN under "ISBN" (yeah, it's not really what that field's for); and the volume and number under "Comments." Please see http://www.librarything.com/work/9963387/book/60268970, if you're really interested. It looks like this approach is similar to other LT users' cataloging of various Granta Magazine issues, which -- luckily! -- I'll also have to deal with very soon. Take a look, and let me know if you have other thoughts, questions or comments. Good luck, and thanks, jasbro

3philn
May 27, 2010, 1:25 am

jasbro, thanks for the ideas. I've been trying to come up with a scheme without much success.

With so many professional journals moving to an electronic version in order to save on printing costs, some method had to be out there that would work.