What are the exceptions to LC’s policy decision for series?
Exceptions to the LC series policy to analyze in full and classify separately: A. The following categories will not be analyzed and will be classed as a collection; series authority records will not be consulted, created, or updated: • Numbered multipart monographs with all parts lacking analyzable titles • Unnumbered multipart monographs cataloged per “2A cataloging” guidelines (“2A cataloging” is a local LC practice to create a made-up collected set record for an unnumbered multipart monograph, assigning numbers to parts as received) • Complete editions of collected works of individual composers (classed as M3) • Auction and sales catalogs • Legal multipart monographs identified by LC’s Law Library B. The following category will not be analyzed and will not be classified; series authority records will not be consulted, created, or updated: • Technical report series identified by LC’s Science, Technology, and Business Division or LC’s Asian Division and shelved in those divisions C.
