GLOSSARY OF TERMS
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ALMANAC
1. A compendium, usually an annual, of statistics and facts, both current and retrospective. May be broad in geographical and subject coverage, or limited to a particular country or state of to a special subject.

2. An annual containing miscellaneous matter, such as a calendar, a list of astronomical events, planting tables, astrological predictions, or anecdotes.

ANALYTICAL ENTRY
1. An access point to part of a bibliographic item for which a comprehensive bibliographic record has been made, e.g. to the author and title of a poem in an anthology, to the subject matter of a chapter of a monograph, or to the title of a separately titled volume of a multi-volume set of books.

2. A bibliographic record of part of a bibliographic item for which a comprehensive record may be made.

ANNUAL
A serial appearing annually, each issue of which is numbered or dated consecutively and normally contains separate articles, stories, or other writings. (See also ANNUAL REVIEW)

ANNUAL REVIEW (revised def.)
An annual collection of articles in a subject field which provides a state-of-the-art summary. This may include serials called "Advances in...," "Progress in...," "Year's Work in...," etc.

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
Includes conference proceedings, transactions, minutes, papers and abstracts of corporate bodies related to their meetings. This does not include non-serial conference publications such as tutorials, lecture notes, monographs, etc. based on conference papers or presentations. (Societies may produce publications on a regular basis, with the terms "proceedings," "transactions" or "abstracts" in the title, that are not affliated with a specific conference or symposium. These types of publications would fall under the definition of periodical.)

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
The published record of a meeting of a society or other organization, frequently accompanied by abstracts or reports of papers presented, which are properly called transactions.

CONTINUATION
1. A part issued in continuance of a monograph, a serial, or a series. (AACR2)

2. A supplement.

CONTINUATION ORDER
An order to a dealer to supply the various parts of a continuation until otherwise notified.

DIRECTORY
A list of persons or organizations, systematically arranged, usually in alphabetic or classed order, giving addresses, affliations, etc. for individuals, and address, officers, functions, and similar data for organizations.

FASCICLE
One of the temporary divisions of a bibliographic item that, for convenience in printing or publication, is issued in small installments, usually incomplete in themselves; they do not necessarily coincide with any formal division of the item into parts, etc. Usually the fascicle is protected by the temporary paper wrappers and may not be numbered. A fascicle is distinguished from a part by being a temporary division of an item rather than a formal component unit. (AACR2, mod.)

JOURNAL
A periodical, especially one containing scholarly articles and/or disseminating current information on research and development in a particular subject field.

LOOSE-LEAF SERVICE
A serial publication which is revised, cumulated, or indexed by means of new or replacement pages inserted in a loose-leaf binder, and used where latest revisions of information are important, as with legal and scientific materials.

MAGAZINE
A periodical for general reading, containing articles on various subjects by different authors.

MICROFORM
A general term applied to all forms of microreproduction on film or paper, e.g. microfilm, microfiche, microopaque.

MONOGRAPH
In cataloging, a nonserial bibliographic item, i.e., an item either complete in one part or complete, or intended to be completed, in a finite number of separate parts. (AACR2)

MONOGRAPHIC SERIES
A group of monographs, usually related to one another in subject, normally issued in succession, normally by the same publisher and in uniform style with a collective title applying to the goup as a whole. Monographic series may be numbered or unnumbered. This definition holds regardless of cataloging treatment (Cat Sep, Cat Anals, Unanal). (See supplementary definition pages for Monographic Series)

NEWSLETTER
A serial consisting of one or a few printed sheets containing news or information of interest chiefly to a special group.

NEWSPAPER
A serial issued at stated, frequent intervals (usually daily, weekly, or semiweekly), containing general news, opinions, advertisements, and other items of current, often local, interest.

NUMBER
1. A single uniquely numbered or dated part of a serial or series.

2. A numbered fascicle.

PART
1. One of the subordinate units into which a bibliographic item has been divided by the author, publisher, or manufacturer. In the case of printed monographs, generally synonymouos with volume; it is distinguished from a fascicle by being a component unit rather than a temporary division of an item. (AACR2 mod.)

2. As used in the physical description area of a bibliographic record, the word "part" designates bibliographic units intended to be bound several to a volume. (AACR2 mod.)

PERIODICAL
A serial appearing or intended to appear indefinitely at regular or stated intervals, more frequently than annually, each issue of which is numbered or dated consecutively and normally contains separate articles, stories, or other writings. Newspapers disseminating general news, monographic series and the proceedings, papers, or other publications of corporate bodies primarily related to their meetings, are not included in this term.

[A publication, especially a magazine or journal, that appears on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, or six-month basis, and is concerned as much with opinions, values, and theories as with news and other information.]

POCKET PART
A supplement intended to be inserted in a pocket on the inside of a book. A customary way to update law books.

REVIEW
(1) A general survey of any kind.

(2) A journal or magazine that prints only or mainly reviews.

SERIAL
A publication in any medium issued in successive parts bearing numerical or chronological designations and intended to be continued indefinitely. Serials include periodicals; newspapers; annuals (reports, yearbooks, etc.); the journals, memoirs, proceedings, transactions, etc., of societies; and numbered monographic series. (AACR2) In addition, a serial will have an OCLC/ANTPAC bibliographic level "S."

[In library science, a periodical such as a scientific journal, each part numbered and chronologically labelled: International Journal of Lexicography, Volume 3, Number 3, Autumn 1990. A Serial Catalog(ue) lists such publications each of which usually has an ISSN.]

SERIES
A group of separate bibliographic items related to one another by the fact that each item bears, in addition to its own title proper, a collective title applying to the group as a whole. The individual items may or may not be numbered. (AACR2)

SPECIAL ISSUE
A single issue of a serial devoted to a special subject, outside of the regular serial numbering, such as an issue of a periodical containing proceedings of a convention, or an anniversary issue.

SPECIAL ISSUES with their own numbering can be treated as a separate serial title. Unnumbered SPECIAL ISSUES with a separate distinct title should be treated as monographs.

STANDING ORDER
A general order to a dealer to supply the volumes or parts of a particular title or type of publication as they appear, until notifies otherwise.

SUBSCRIPTION
The arrangement by which, in return for a sum paid in advance, a periodical, newspaper, or other serial is provided for a specified number of issues.

SUPPLEMENT
An extra sheet, section, or number, that may accompany the regular issue of a serial or which has a formal relationship as expressed by a common title or subtitle, and/or a stated intention to continue or supplement the original serial title.

TECHNICAL REPORT
A report giving details and results of a specific investigation of a scientific or technical problem.

TRANSACTIONS
The published papers and abstracts of papers presented at a meeting of a society or other organization, frequently accompanied by a record of the meeting called the proceedings.

VOLUME
The collective issues of a periodical that constitute the whole or a consecutive part of a definite publishing period, either bound or unbound.

VOLUME NUMBER
A number assigned to a volume of a serial, a set, or a series.

WORKING PAPERS
Documents such as notes, calculations, or rough drafts assembled or created and used in the preparation or analysis of other documents.

YEARBOOK
An annual compendium of facts and statistics of the preceding year, frequently limited to a special subject. (See ALMANAC)

Compiled by the Serials Coding and Definition Task Force, UCI Libraries, Fall 1993. Revised and updated by the Technical Services Online Policies and Procedures Manual Team, UCI Libraries, Summer 1999.