In April 2006, the Library of Congress (LC) announced that in May, it would "cease to provide controlled series access in the bibliographic records that its catalogers produce."1 Its catalogers would continue to transcribe series statements but would no longer create or update the series authority records that provide a uniform entry for resources issued in series. This announcement occasioned great alarm in the cataloging community, but many reference staff may never have heard about it. LC's decision to stop creating series authority records should make everyone who works with an OPAC-not just catalogers-sit up and think about their local technical services operations.
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