This syllabus outlines the objectives and content for a professional continuing education course on serials selection and management. The following topics are covered: (1) types of serials publications, issuing agencies, and identification aids; (2) selection and evaluation, including a collection development policy, selection aids, criteria for selection, and evaluation; (3) acquisitions, including centralization of ordering, standing orders, and publishers versus subscription agents; (4) the ordering process, including bibliographic information and purchase orders; (5) serials record systems; (6) binding, including selection and evaluation of a binder; (7) miscellaneous concerns, including gifts, exchanges, duplicates, backfiles, and weeding; (8) cooperative acquisitions programs; (9) non-print serials; (10) budget and statistics; and (11) automated check-in systems. (51 references) (MES)