Q. What is the difference between bound volumes and current issues of periodicals?

Current issues:

• Current periodicals represent the most recent issue(s) of a particular journal or magazine. These journals/magazines must be read in the library only.

Bound volumes:

• Most periodicals have several issues to a volume (a volume usually spans one year's worth of publications of that periodical). Therefore, journals that come out monthly will have 12 issues in a volume, whereas journals that come out quarterly will have four issues to a volume, etc.
• Once a volume is no longer current, the Library will gather up the issues in that volume and bind them together into a single book, which are bound periodicals.
• Bound periodicals are then placed on the shelves on the 1st floor at the south end of the building (organized alphabetically by title). The current issues for each title are placed in a holder next to the bound volumes for that title.

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