With the implemention of an integrated library system in October 1999, online access to serial holdings will start to become a reality. The Processing and Reference Section is the largest processing section at the Library and consists of a Sorting Unit and four Serials Processing Units. These units process more than 1.3 million serial receipts per year. The staff provide all editorial services for the manual Serial Record file as well as non-keep cataloging for approximately 8500 new serial titles each year. In addition, the section responds to more than 26,000 telephone inquiries relating to serial holdings each year.
Program is a cooperative program for the cataloging of serials.
Cataloging is performed directly online to the OCLC database and records existing there are used and adapted when found. In minimal-level cataloging, name authority records are not created and subject headings and LC classification numbers are not assigned. The section catalogs reproduction microforms, newly received titles of low research value, and also works on special projects. National Serials Data Program Section NSDP is the United States center of the ISSN Network. In addition to the ISSN, NSDP also assigns a key title, an abbreviated title, a decimal classification number, and other descriptive data.