The North Carolina Online Union List of Serials is part of the OCLC Union List of Serials System. The online union list provides access to summary holdings statements of union list groups and their member institutions. The Union List Group display shows summary holdings statements for each library within the union list group that holds a copy of a specific serial publication. The Union List Institution display shows summary holdings statements for each copy of the serial within a specific institution in a union list group.

The State Library of North Carolina has functioned as the agent for the North Carolina Online Union List of Serials since the project began in March 1988. Over 105,000 project local data records are in the OCLC database. Records have also been entered by individual North Carolina libraries. The North Carolina Online Union List of Serials can be accessed via the Interlibrary Loan Subsystem of OCLC. The group access symbol for North Carolina is NC$A. For a more thorough discussion of the OCLC Union List and a description of its flexibility, visit the OCLC Web site.

Benefits of participation

• Facilitates cooperative collection development

• Improves interlibrary loan efficiency for serial requests.

• Holdings more easily updated and lists more easily maintained.

For more information contact:

N.C. Online Union List of Serials
Cataloging & Metadata Services Branch
State Library of North Carolina
4641 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-4641
Roseanna Covington, Union Listing Assistant