Serial Publications in the Center for Research Libraries

This article has been limited to describing the Center's activities in regard to serial publications. The reader should be reminded that the materials described in this article form only a part of the Center's collection. Excluding government documents, serial publications alone account for about 600,000 of the over 3,000,000 volumes held by the Center. The Center's printed Catalogue presently consists of 12 volumes of monographic titles, but only three volumes of serial titles. In addition to this, the Center holds over 500,000 foreign doctoral dissertations, 85,000 textbooks, 45,000 children's books, 125,000 college catalogs and several smaller collections of monographic materials which are shelf cataloged and thus do not appear in the printed Catalogue. erial publications thus form only one part of the Center's total collection. That it is a significant part is indicated by the fact that the publications described in this article, current issues and backfiles of journals and newspapers, account for nearly 60% of the material borrowed from the Center.

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