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Subject: Re: Book Labeling
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:44:49 -0800
From: DUNHAM Patricia R <Patricia.R.DUNHAM@ci.eugene.or.us>

Carol asked

We are putting dates on our labels.  Do we use the edition date or the
copyright date?

My answer -- it depends.  Is your title a monograph or a serial (or
should
be a serial) -- the item in your example looks like it might be a
serial,
possibly incorrectly or alternately cataloged as a monograph.  I see a
lot
of that where I work too.  Publishers don't understand seriality either.

In your specific case, I'd use the edition date.

On serials or serial-like titles, my principle is "TRY NOT TO FOOL THE
PATRON".  My favorite example is Gardner Dozois "Year's best SF" annual.
This is a compilation of award stories that is put together one or two
years
AFTER the publication of the contents.  Patrons don't care when the book
was
made, they're interested in the date of the CONTENTS.  So when the 17th
ed
comes in and says it was published in 2000, but all the dates on the
contents page are for stories and novellettes published in 1999, I put
1999
on the spine label!

Travel and test books go the opposite direction... Fodor's, Frommer's,
Let's
Go, etc.   Or the GED, ASVAB, ACT type test preparation books.  These
are
dated ahead on the outsides and TP's, to the next travel season, or
round of
tests.  When the date inside is 2000, and the date on the outside and TP
is
2001 -- I'd put 2001, the CONTENTS date.

Heretically yours, 8-)
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