We cancelled several loose-leaf subcriptions a couple of years ago. Since
it would not have been obvious to most patrons that a loose-leaf was no
longer being updated, we felt the need to indicate it on the spine. We
produced labels for each volume that said "NO LONGER UPDATED as of xxxxx"
We also indicated the cancellation in the catalog records. Although we
recognized that the frozen publications were less valuable, we decided to
retain them with the obvious caveats. A cancelled loose-leaf publication
can at least provide a "snapshot" of the law in a particular area; which is
just what a non-supplemented monograph does.
When a publisher replaces a loose-leaf edition with an entirely new
release, we close out the cataloging for the old edition and transfer it
into storage. So we treat dead loose-leafs consistently, whether the death
was induced locally or determined by the maker (as it were.)
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Joe Thomas
Kresge Library, Notre Dame Law School
Notre Dame, IN 46556
thomas.2@nd.edu ; jthomas@irishmvs.bitnet ; (219) 631-5992
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