When the numbering restarts every year, the first level of enumeration needs to be the year, and the second level is the actual number.  So for something with number and year only, you would use only enumeration (not chronology) subfields and end up with issues like this:

 

                2016:v.1

                2016:v.2

                2016:v.3

                ...

                2017:v.1

 

If there's a second level of chronology involved (month or season), you'd also use the chronology subfields, to end up with:

 

                2016:no.1 (2016:Jan.)

                2016:no.2 (2016:Feb.)

                2016:no.3 (2016:Mar.)

                ...

                2017:no.1 (2017:Jan.)

 

Hope this helps.

 

Kevin M. Randall

Principal Serials Cataloger

Northwestern University Libraries

Northwestern University

www.library.northwestern.edu

kmr@northwestern.edu

847.491.2939

 

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Dear serials experts,

 

Our library recently migrated from III Millennium to ExLibris’ Alma. We have opted to utilize the prediction patterns wherever possible. I’ve been becoming acquainted with setting the captions and patterns up, and have been fairly successful considering the variety of periodicities, exceptions, and descriptions that legal materials require. I’ve been consulting the following resources:

 

http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/hd853855.html

http://loc.gov/marc/chrono_patterns.html

 

One area that I have been struggling with is the Enumeration A level. I have many examples of materials where there are multiple volumes or issues in a year with only one enumeration level, and they restart/repeat the following year. The documentation says that the ‡v – Numbering continuity (continous or restarts) field does not apply to the Enumeration A level. Is there a way to get volumes to restart to 1 when there is no enumeration b field?

 

Examples:

 

1)      Four volumes are published per year: v.1 (2016), v.2 (2016), v.3(2016), and v.4 (2016). In 2017, it will restart to v.1(2017) so on and so forth.

 

2)      Six releases are published per year (bimonthly): no.1 (2016: Jan.), no.2 (2016: Mar.), no.3 (2016:May), no.4(2016:July), no.5(2016:Sept.), no.6(2016:Nov.), it will restart to no.1 (2017:Jan.).

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

Thank you very much!

 

Rebecca L. Bearden
Technical Services Librarian

University of Connecticut School of Law

Thomas J. Meskill Law Library
39 Elizabeth Street, Hartford, CT 06105-2287
Tel: (860)-570-5011 Fax: (860)-570-5036

Email: rebecca.bearden@uconn.edu

 

 

 

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