Item records should be created using the vernacular captions. If not, please report for updating. The most common example is volume and number, plus continuous whole numbers. The selected scheme should be used as long as it appears on the piece, to avoid confusion between two different systems. When the coverage and publication dates are different, the 362 and therefore the holdings and item records should reflect the coverage date, i.e. the period of time covered by the issue.
Ordinal numbers are appropriate for holdings statements and item records.
Incomplete volumes Past Dartmouth binding practice was to list lacks on the inside front cover of the volume but not on the spine. Recently Preservation has begun marking spines with INC to indicate incompleteness. This innovation conveys more information to the user at the shelf, but is not a substitute for listing lacks in the holdings statement.