ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the Union List of Serials in the Libraries of the United States and Canada of the Library of Congress as a model for standardized format. However, since the system for recording serial holdings varies widely from repository to repository, the Guide uses the verbatim information in the repository records, even where this may seem to contradict the dates of publication. There is still much to learn from North American missionary records concerning not just the missionaries themselves but the Chinese with whom they interacted (both in China and in North America). There exist repositories of fascinating material all over the continent.
