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• Once a volume is no longer current, the Library gathers the issues in that volume and binds them together into one or two hardback books, referred to as bound periodicals.
• Bound periodicals are stored on shelves on the 1st floor at the south end of the building (past the elevator lobby). Volumes are organized alphabetically beginning with the shelves at the front right of the room.
• All current (unbound) issues are on a shelf at the front left of the room.

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