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Periodical
A periodical is any publication, including magazines, newspapers, trade magazines, or scholarly journals, that is published periodically - weekly, monthly, quarterly, etc. Publications which are issued at least twice a year, including journals, magazines and newspapers. Records for periodical titles are labeled as serials in MNCAT, the Library Catalog.

Current periodicals are those which have recently arrived and are usually kept in loose binders, or on open shelves. Bound periodicals are back issues which have been sent to the bindery, gathered by date and issue and covered with a binding.

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