Some Info On Group Copyright Registration

I've found it frustrating to get the information needed for back copyright registration of published pieces. Even when you group them together (see the Writer Resource I have on this blog), the forms call for the volume and issue number. I recently wrote the Copyright Office about this, and here is the response

You need to provide a month day and year date of publication and volume and issue numbers (even if it is an estimate and to the best of your knowledge) in order to register the work.

In other words, even if you don't know, find out what the volume info is for this year, count back, and make an estimate on the number of issues that year and which one your piece was in. This doesn't take all the drudgery out, but it should make life easier if you don't have clips that included the volume and issue numbers.