According to Jean Hirons' presentation at NASIG:

Frequency is a major change when it is added or dropped in the title,e.g.,
Atlantic to Atlantic monthly is a major change.  So I assume People weekly
to People would also be a major change and considered a new title.

Christina McCawley
West Chester University
West Chester, PA 19383
cmccawley@wcupa.edu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Lester [SMTP:dan@riverofdata.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 11:51 AM
> To:   SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
> Subject:      Re: People weekly
>
> I'm not a cataloger, but that sure sounds like a title change to me.
>
> Maybe this could be worthy of one of title change awards....for a
> title that has been changed but that "hasn't technically changed",
> whatever in the world that might mean.   At least to me, it seems that
> something has changed, or it hasn't, and it can't be both.  But maybe
> I'm just not with the modern world.  Hmmmmm....how can it NOT change
> and still be "fresh and not boring"?
>
> cheers
>
> dan
>
>
> Tuesday, July 9, 2002, 5:29:04 PM, you wrote:
>
> KB> I just talked to their customer service and they said that they have
> KB> dropped the "weekly" off of the name but haven't technically changed
> the
> KB> name.  The reason they gave for doing this was to keep everything
> fresh
> KB> and not boring.
>
>
>
>
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