ABSTRACT
Summary. As libraries automate, paper files such as the card catalog, the shelflist, the order file, and authority files are also automated. To exploit the automated authority file and to help streamline the handling of titles in series, Trinity University Library has developed a method to store cataloging and processing information in the online series authority record. The issue of how to integrate the pure tide authority function of the series authority record with the pragmatic aspects of processing titles in series is discussed. As a result of this integration at Trinity University, acquisitions staff, catalogers, and copy catalogers can easily obtain information about distribution and cataloging treatment of titles within series and analyzed serial tides. This procedure is adaptable to manual environments as well.
