Hi Silvana -

You only enter dates in the 260/264 when you have the first and/or last issues in hand. So in your situation, your 264 has no subfield $c, and the information you have goes in a 362 field:

362 1_ Began in 1786; ceased in 1865.

Robert Rendall

Principal Serials Cataloger

Original and Special Materials Cataloging, Columbia University Libraries

102 Butler Library, 535 West 114th Street, New York, NY 10027

tel.: 212 851 2449 fax: 212 854 5167

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Silvana Notarmaso <loni@mptek.net> wrote:

Hello all,
I am primarily a rare monograph and map cataloger, but occasionally I do serials too. But my experience is very limited and I always question my serial cataloging decisions and I usually find myself overwhelmed with doubts. I joined this list to seek the support I don't have at my job, so, please excuse my ignorance on the subject. One of the problems I have is I'm not quite sure how to enter dates in the 260/264 field when I'm pretty confident about the beginning and end dates but I don't actually have the first or last issues. From my research I determined that the beginning date is 1786 and that the end date for that title (before continued by another) is 1865. So, how should indicate this in the record?

Thanks,
Silvana

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