In general, the CONSER standard Records (CSR) will contain a date of publication (362) and a Description based on and Latest issue consulted note depending on whether the issue is in hand, the information is known, or the information is unknown. For CONSER and RDA, the cataloger need not always have the first or last issue in hand to record certain information. As long as the information is known or ascertainable from a RDA authorized source of information. (CCM:8.1.1)
⮚The first issue and a later issue in hand:
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588 1# $a Volume 3, no. 1 (May 2013).
⮚The first issue is not in hand, information about when the serial began is unknown (no 362 1#):
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588 1# $a Number 3 (July 2013).
⮚The first issue is not in hand but information about when the serial began is known:
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588 1# $a Vol. 13 (2013).
⮚The last issue is known but not in hand, information about the first issue is unknown:
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588 1# $a No. 10, published in 2011.
⮚The last issue known but not in hand, closing out an existing CONSER AACR2 record:
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362 1# $a Ceased in 2011.
⮚First and last issue known but not in hand:
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588 1# $a Volume 3, no. 1(January 2006).
⮚First issue is not in hand but the last issue is:
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588 1# $a Vol. 4, no. 5 (May 1990).
⮚Last issue is the only issue in hand:
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