If you know bibliographical description of an article in a journal, you should check if this journal, where the article is published, is available in your Library. You may search for information in the alphabetical periodicals catalogue.

The alphabetical periodicals catalogue contains descriptions of all periodicals printed in XIX and XX centuries and stored by the University Library, also periodicals printed before the end of XVIII century if they had their continuations in XIX century.

The periodical catalogue card contains such identification elements like: entry, periodical title, subtitle, place of publishing, frequency (e.g. monthly), publisher and format, year of publication, volumes and numbers, which are available in the Library and call number, which can be accompanied by a stamp. The catalogue cards with descriptions of individual periodicals are arranged alphabetically by entries.

The entry on the periodical catalogue card is the first word of periodical title, without any articles. There can be also so-called formal entry e.g.: "Kalendarz" - it is the entry for all publications containing the almanac, no matter if there is the word almanac in the title or not. Catalogue cards with the entry "Szkoły Akademickie" and "Szkoły "Średnie" are arranged also according to the names of towns e.g. Cracow. Jagellonian University.

Call number is put into Arabic numerals and is written in the upper right corner of a catalogue card. It describes the title of the periodical. When choosing an year’s issue you have to write all additional information on your order form.

A stamp on a catalogue card informs about the place, where periodicals are stored and available e.g. the stamp "Czyt. Hum.-Społ." (the Main Reading Room) means, that your order form should be left in the Main Reading Room and you can use the required periodicals only in this place.

The library holdings contain only these titles, volumes and numbers of periodicals, which are written or typed on a catalogue card.

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