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Fascicles - When a work is issued in small installments which are incomplete in themselves (e.g., pt. 1 has paging 1-78, pt. 2 has paging 79-156, etc.) the individual installments are called fascicles (Spanish - fasciculo, German - Lieferung, French - fascicule).
Fascicles are meant to be bound together in a single volume once all of the pieces have been received.
Look at each fascicle carefully to determine whether it completes a volume or not. Each title varies in how it shows that a particular fascicle is the last one. Often you'll have to go to the stacks to check unbound fascicles as well as bound volumes to look for this information.
When you do go to the stacks to look at the items, insert an 019 into the record and include any information that will be helpful to the next processor. If you notice other volumes that should be bound, gather these and bind them. If you aren't sure, note what you found in the 019 and wait until the next fascicle arrives.
Once you can determine that a volume is complete, recall or retrieve the unbound fascicles. Note that mistakes have been made and some will be bound. These will have to be unbound.
Look for a title page in the first or last fascicle. If there isn't one, ask Acq. to see if one is available.
Once you have a title page or know that you can't get one, remove the fascicle holdings. Assign a new barcode for the volume and enter a single new call number. Put a bindery slip with the items and mark "Bind" on the flyer.
Count statistics as one volume added.
Some fascicles are really just volumes of a set that are called fascicles rather than volume, part, etc. When this is the case, they will look more like complete volumes in themselves. They probably won't have continuous pagings between volumes. They may each have their own title pages, etc.
