Abstract
Excerpt: In April 2006, the Library of Congress (LC) announced that in May,it would “cease to provide controlled series access in the bibliographicrecords that its catalogers produce.”1 Its catalogers would continue totran scribe series statements but would no longer create or update the se-ries authority records that provide a uniform entry for resources issuedin 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 ev-eryone who works with an OPAC–not just catalogers–sit up and thinkabout their local technical services operations.