EDINA newsline
March 2012: Volume 17 Issue 1
SUNCAT continues to add more libraries, making it an increasingly valuable serials tool for HE and FE – for librarians as well as for students and researchers.
About 2,000 serial records from the Library of the Society of Friends have just been loaded into SUNCAT. This is the first new SUNCAT Contributing Library of 2012, taking the total number of Libraries to 83 (excluding CONSER, ISSN and DOAJ).
The library holds collections relating to Quakers and their activities, including peace, anti-slavery and relief work. Over 200 periodical titles are regularly received. They range from academic titles such as Quaker Studies and The Journal of the Friends Historical Society, to special interests such as Towards Wholeness (Friends Fellowship of Healing) to the newsletters and journals of other Yearly Meetings. There are complete runs of many titles, plus older titles that no longer exist. Take a look at the Contributing Libraries page for the full range of libraries and their extensive journal holdings.
In addition we would like to draw your attention to the fact that work does not end with the inclusion of a library’s catalogue in SUNCAT. Much effort is spent on a regular basis updating the many holdings from all contributing libraries. The SUNCAT blog is used to post weekly information with all the latest updates.