Looseleafs are in a third category called "integrating resources", which also covers such things as online databases. (Formerly I believe they were considered a screwy subset of serials.)
I've seen the "integrating resource" notation in some records from OCLC, but on our patch a loose-leaf title is usually set up as a monograph, then converted to display serial holdings if updates show up (often, they don't, and we don't want to trigger claiming if there aren't going to be updates, since that causes all kinds of tail-chasing and confusion with billing, vendors, etc.)
My latest tug-of-war with Cataloging has been to get them to stop setting titles up as active serials without informing me, just because the piece fulfills some kind of Platonic ideal of a serial in the mind of a Cataloger. From a tech processing perspective, a title is an active serial if we actually have a subscription to it and want to claim it. (The solution has been to get them to always check with me and set it up as an ISER serial unless I determine we want to subscribe. The situation that causes this kind of problem is when somebody orders a title that happens to be part of a serial set or annual publication, but we didn't know that when we ordered it, btw.)
I've found it literally impossible to explain to my assistant what is and is not a serial in the context of legal publications. It depends so much on what you want the record to DO rather than on what the physical piece says it is.
(I'm pretty sure this whole mono/serial ambiguity in legal publications is why JRL permits Law to have its own tech processing dept.; I don't know if it gets as weird with other types of publications).
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My latest tug-of-war with Cataloging has been to get them to stop setting titles up as active serials without informing me, just because the piece fulfills some kind of Platonic ideal of a serial in the mind of a Cataloger. From a tech processing perspective, a title is an active serial if we actually have a subscription to it and want to claim it. (The solution has been to get them to always check with me and set it up as an ISER serial unless I determine we want to subscribe. The situation that causes this kind of problem is when somebody orders a title that happens to be part of a serial set or annual publication, but we didn't know that when we ordered it, btw.)
I've found it literally impossible to explain to my assistant what is and is not a serial in the context of legal publications. It depends so much on what you want the record to DO rather than on what the physical piece says it is.
(I'm pretty sure this whole mono/serial ambiguity in legal publications is why JRL permits Law to have its own tech processing dept.; I don't know if it gets as weird with other types of publications).