Serials Cataloging / CONSER

The Serials Cataloging Team provides bibliographic access, authority control, and holdings information for serial publications. The team handles material in most languages written in the Roman alphabet and in certain other languages out of the scope of Widener Library's Area Studies Department. The team works with serial materials in all formats, including printed text, microforms, phonodiscs, CD-ROM and other electronic media.

As part of the University's commitment to the national CONSER Program, bibliographic records for all currently received titles are created and maintained according to the standards and agreed-on practices of the Program. Name authority work for headings on CONSER records is submitted to the national authority file through the NACO (Name Authority Cooperative) Program.