Issues, Supplements, and Indexes

Because Serials conforms to the MARC 21 standard, checkin cards can distinguish among issues, supplements, and indexes for a serial.

Serials adds an 'S' or an 'I' in the corner of a checkin card box to distinguish supplements and indexes from issues.

You do not need to be familiar with or proficient in MARC 21 to utilize the supplements and indexes option. Serials creates the MARC fields "behind-the-scenes." You do not need to view or edit the MARC fields.

The distinction among issues, supplements, and indexes is an optional feature. Your library may choose not to use separate definitions for issues, supplements, and indexes. In this case, all pieces of a serial are treated as issues.

It is recommended that you enable or disable the option to use supplements and indexes for all logins. The option can be enabled on a login-by-login basis. See Add supplements and indexes in the Setup tab of the Login Manager to enable or disable supplements and indexes for each login.

If your library chooses to utilize this distinction, Serials stores the different types of pieces in different MARC-tagged fields and allow you to define separate checkin card parameters for the issues, supplements, and indexes of each serial.

The following fields are used:

Piece Type	Defined by	Stored in	Description
Issues	853 field	863 field	The regular unit of the title
Supplements	854 field	864 field	Pieces published periodically to supplement issues
Indexes	855 field	865 field	Pieces that contain an index for the publication

The following functions are affected:

Creating Checkin cards - You must define separate parameters for issues, supplements, and indexes.
Editing Checkin card parameters - You must edit the card parameters for issues, supplements, and indexes separately.
Adding or inserting Checkin card boxes - Serials has separate options for adding issues, supplements, and indexes.
Editing holdings -(LIB HAS) fields - The Holdings tab has separate tabs for issues, supplements, and indexes.