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The decision to catalog publications issued in looseleaf format as serials or as monographs affects the acquisition, budget allocation, receipt, record maintenance, and access to these publications in both manual and automated environments in any largc academic library environment. At the University of Arizona Library, a looseleaf recataloging project based on cataloging standards developed by the Library of Congress and illuminated with the 1986 publication of Cataloging Rules for the Description of Looseleaf Publications directly affected many areas of the library. This article describes the historical background of looseleaf cataloging, the lack of standardization which culminated in the publication of the Library of Congress book, and how new cataloging rule interpretations and the automation of acquisitions and serials check-in, prompted the University of Arizona Library Serials Department to reexamine previous looseleaf cataloging practices.