How weeklies work
SWAN Bibliographic Services will create new records for the Weekly titles that require this treatment in the Fall of the preceding year. If you receive an issue that needs to be added to a Weekly bibliographic record that has not yet been created, please send in a ticket. Do not create a Weekly bibliographic record yourself.
The term "Weeklies" is a catch-all term for these titles, but they are not all published weekly. Certain less frequent periodicals are collected by enough SWAN libraries that their number of attached items warranted this treatment.
Weekly titles will contain the year in brackets after the title in the 245 field. The fixed field dates on weekly title are altered to match the appropriate year. This improves search relevancy. More recent versions of weekly titles should appear higher in search results in both WorkFlows and the catalog.
Weekly titles also contain a local subject heading to assist searching:
690 Weeklies.
Issues attached to a title's yearly record correspond to the earliest printed date on the serial. For example, and issue dated "December 31,2017- January 6, 2018" should appear on the 2017 record.
If you would like to suggest a title to be added to the Weeklies list, please send in a ticket.