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Re: SERIALST Digest - 3 Feb 2006 to 6 Feb 2006 (#2006-31) Heather Whalen 07 Feb 2006 20:04 UTC

I work at DeSales University in PA and we haven't had any difficulty recieving
Nature.  They came right on time.  Volume 438 issue 7071 is a dated Dec 22/Dec
28 and volume 439 issue 7072 is Jan 5th.  Feel free to use us for interlibrary
loan if you need to get these issues to your patrons.

Heather C. Whalen
Trexler Library
DeSales University
2755 Station Ave
Center Valley, PA 18034-9568

Quoting SERIALST automatic digest system <LISTSERV@LIST.UVM.EDU>:

> There are 5 messages totalling 397 lines in this issue.
>
> Topics of the day:
>
>   1. Jan. 5 issues
>   2. Nature Dec. 22/29 and Jan. 5 issues
>   3. Nature Problems?
>   4. FW: Nature
>   5. Graduate Assistantships Available at Central Washington University
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Date:    Mon, 6 Feb 2006 08:25:15 -0500
> From:    Diane Johnson <johnsonD@GENESEO.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Jan. 5 issues
>
> Hello,  We didn't receive no. 7072 (Jan. 5, 2006) until Feb.
> 1st.    We never claimed it, so it is possible it was just delayed
> for some reason.
>
> Diane Johnson
>
>
> At 10:38 PM 2/3/2006, you wrote:
> >[Response #1]
> >
> >Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 13:00:56 -0600
> >From: "Bennett, Karla" <KBennett@wichita.gov>
> >
> >We didn't receive issue #7072, either. The next one we received was v.439,
> >no.7073 dated January 12, 2006. On EBSCONET it shows v.439, no.7072,
> >January 2,
> >2006 as received. Hmmm.
>
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
>   Diane Johnson                    Head, Serials Dept.
>   Phone:  (585) 245-5597
>   Fax: (585) 245-5997              Milne Library SUNY Geneseo, NY   14454
>   e-mail: johnsonD@geneseo.edu
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Mon, 6 Feb 2006 10:06:18 -0500
> From:    Lucy Wrightington <lxw08@HEALTH.STATE.NY.US>
> Subject: Re: Nature Dec. 22/29 and Jan. 5 issues
>
> Their online site shows clearly two separate issues.
> 7071 is Dec. 22, and 7072 is Jan. 5.
> Since we also didn't receive the Jan. 5 issue, can't check what's on the
> print issue.
> But it looks like they are wrong about that combined issue numbering.
> Lucy Wrightington, Librarian
> Dickerman Library
> Wadsworth Center
> New York State Department of Health
> Empire State Plaza, P.O. Box 509
> Albany, NY 12201
>
> phone: (518) 474-6168
> fax:        (518) 474-3933
>
>
>
>
>              "Skwor, Jeanette"
>              <skworj@UWGB.EDU>
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>              "SERIALST:                SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
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>              Libraries
>              Discussion Forum"                                     Subject
>              <SERIALST@LIST.UV         [SERIALST] Nature Dec. 22/29 and
>              M.EDU>                    Jan. 5 issues
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>              02/03/2006 01:12
>              PM
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>              Please respond to
>                 "SERIALST:
>                 Serials in
>                  Libraries
>              Discussion Forum"
>              <SERIALST@LIST.UV
>                   M.EDU>
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>
> We received the Dec. 22/29, 2005 issue of Nature clearly marked volume
> 438, no. 7071.
>
> I claimed vol. 439, no. 7072, dated Jan. 5.
>
> Now my vendor responded, stating that the Dec. 22/29 issue is actually
> no. 7071/7072.  Which I would not even question, except that various
> libraries are showing a Dec. 22/29, v. 438, no. 7071 and a Jan. 5, vol.
> 439, no. 7072.
>
> And where do the Wise Ones of this list weigh in, please?
>
> TIA -
>
> Jeanette L. Skwor
> Cofrin Library
> University of WI-Green Bay
> (920) 465-2670
>
> "Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will
> get you through times of no libraries."
>                               Anne Herbert, The Whole Earth Catalog
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Mon, 6 Feb 2006 10:35:29 -0500
> From:    "STEVE BLACK@FACULTY@ACADEMICAFFAIRS" <BLACKS@MAIL.STROSE.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Nature Problems?
>
> An irony in Nature's erratic publishing of late referred to by Jeanette
> Skwor is that the journal is an outstanding source for news about
> journal publishing. I routinely check the News section of Nature for
> articles on Open Access, issues surrounding peer review and the
> reliability of published studies. But my library is also missing the
> Jan. 5 issue.
>
> It's funny that an editorial board that focuses attention on the quality
> of journal publishing tolerates such sloppy work on the distribution
> end.
>
> Steve Black
> Reference, Serials, and Instruction Librarian
> The College of Saint Rose
> 392 Western Avenue
> Albany, NY 12203-1419
> blacks@strose.edu
> (518)458-5494
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
> [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Skwor, Jeanette
> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 2:53 PM
> To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Nature Problems?
>
> Thanks to all on this - the Dec 22/29 issue is combined only for date
> and is issue no. 7071.  Jan. 5 is 7072 (and a new volume).  It finally
> dawned on me to check their website and that bears out what you have
> told me.
>
> Which brings me to question #2:  What is going on with this pub lately?
> They were so reliable for years and years, and the past few months have
> been horrid.  Issues not arriving, being told story after story
> ("delayed publication" vs "oh those went out on time, have your
> librarian recheck" vs "that issue is out of print" vs "we're sending
> that issue today" and now this piece of claptrap.
>
> And yes, if someone from Nature is lurking, I'd like to hear what you
> have to say.  This library has had more claims for this title in the
> past 6 months than in the 10 years preceding that.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeanette Skwor
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
> [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Skwor, Jeanette
> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 12:12 PM
> To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
> Subject: [SERIALST] Nature Dec. 22/29 and Jan. 5 issues
>
> We received the Dec. 22/29, 2005 issue of Nature clearly marked volume
> 438, no. 7071.
>
> I claimed vol. 439, no. 7072, dated Jan. 5.
>
> Now my vendor responded, stating that the Dec. 22/29 issue is actually
> no. 7071/7072.  Which I would not even question, except that various
> libraries are showing a Dec. 22/29, v. 438, no. 7071 and a Jan. 5, vol.
> 439, no. 7072.
>
> And where do the Wise Ones of this list weigh in, please?
>
> TIA -
>
> Jeanette L. Skwor
> Cofrin Library
> University of WI-Green Bay
> (920) 465-2670
>
> "Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will
> get you through times of no libraries."
>                               Anne Herbert, The Whole Earth Catalog
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Mon, 6 Feb 2006 10:42:43 -0500
> From:    Diane Dudley <drdudl@WM.EDU>
> Subject: FW: Nature
>
> See below from my EBSCO representative.
>
> =20
>
> Diane
>
> =20
>
> Diane R. Dudley
>
> Periodicals Records Manager
>
> Earl Gregg Swem Library
>
> College of William and Mary
>
> P.O. Box 8794
>
> Williamsburg, VA 23187-8794
>
> Phone: 757-221-1697
>
> drdudl@wm.edu
>
> =20
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lisa Devine [mailto:ldevine@ebsco.com]=20
> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 10:17 AM
> To: Diane Dudley
> Subject: RE: Nature
>
> =20
>
> Hey Diane,
>
> =20
>
> EBSCO checked in v.438 #7072 as the Jan 5, 2006. =20
>
> =20
>
> Thank you,=20
> Lisa Devine
> Customer Service Specialist
> EBSCO Information Services
> ldevine@ebsco.com
> Tele. #205-980-2745
> Fax # 205-995-1613=20
> EBSCO, Customer Focused....Content Driven=20
>
> =20
>
> =20
>
>   _____ =20
>
> From: Diane Dudley [mailto:drdudl@wm.edu]=20
> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 7:46 AM
> To: Lisa Devine
> Subject: Nature
>
> Lisa,
>
> =20
>
> The Serials gossip line is all a buzz about this title. Lots of folks =
> are
> not receiving their copies. Of course the expected dates could be off a =
> bit.
>
> =20
>
> Nature title  number: 616894002
>
> =20
>
> Still. Need:
>
> =20
>
>    Enumeration       Chronology      Date expected    Receipt status   =20
>
> =20
>
>  Claimed ages ago:
>
>   v. 427 no. 6972   JAN 22, 2004          1/8/2004      none rcvd  =20
>
> =20
>
>  =20
>
>    v. 438 no. 7072       DEC 29, 2005          12/29/2005    none rcvd
>
>
>    v. 438 no. 7073       JAN 5, 2006           1/5/2006      none rcvd
>
>
>    v. 438 no. 7074       JAN 12, 2006          1/12/2006     none rcvd
>
>
>   *v. 439 no. 7076       JAN 26, 2006          1/26/2006     none rcvd
>
>
>    v. 439 no. 7077       FEB 2, 2006           2/2/2006      none rcvd
>
>
>    v. 439 no. 7078       FEB 9, 2006           2/9/2006      none rcvd
>
>
> =20
>
> =20
>
> Diane R. Dudley
>
> Periodicals Records Manager
>
> Earl Gregg Swem Library
>
> College of William and Mary
>
> P.O. Box 8794
>
> Williamsburg, VA 23187-8794
>
> Phone: 757-221-1697
>
> drdudl@wm.edu
>
> =20
>
> =20
>
> =20
>
> =20
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Mon, 6 Feb 2006 15:51:51 -0800
> From:    Anna Creech <CreechA@CWU.EDU>
> Subject: Graduate Assistantships Available at Central Washington University
>
> The James E. Brooks Library faculty announce a graduate assistantship
> program for individuals who already have an MLS, or equivalent, and who
> desire a second subject master degree.  This unique two-year program
> allows an individual to study in any of eighteen graduate programs while
> gaining valuable professional experience in an academic library.  Ideal
> for new or experienced tenure-seeking librarians, candidates must apply
> to the graduate school and be accepted into a program prior to being
> accepted as a paid library graduate assistant.
>
> The assistantship is really two programs; an opportunity to gain
> valuable professional experience under the tutelage of professional
> librarians while getting that second, often necessary, advanced degree
> required at many academic libraries. For experienced librarians this
> assistantship is also two programs; a chance to advance by studying for
> an advanced degree while renewing and recharging one's self during an
> extended leave of absence.
>
> Total benefits include a stipend of $7,120, plus paid tuition, medical
> insurance and health center fees equaling approximately $13,888 per
> academic year.  Summer study and employment opportunities may also be
> available.
>
> Opportunities are available for candidates to gain professional
> experience in reference, instruction, library technology and systems,
> technical services, outreach, archives and record management, government
> publications, maps, assessment and research.
>
> Application and queries may be initiated by contacting Dr. Thomas M.
> Peischl, Dean of Library Services at Peischl@cwu.edu, or by telephone at
> (509) 963-1901, or by mail at The James E. Brooks Library, 400 East
> University Way, Ellensburg, WA 98926.
>
> Web access to Central Washington University is: http://www.cwu.edu/
> Web access to The James E. Brooks Library is: http://www.lib.cwu.edu/
> Web access to application forms for The Office of Graduate Studies and
> Research may be found at: http://www.cwu.edu/~masters/
>
> -----------------------------------
> Anna L. Creech, MLS
> Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian
> Central Washington University
> Serials Department - Library
> 400 E. University Way
> Ellensburg, WA  98926-7548
> (509) 963-1718
>
> ------------------------------
>
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