In reply to Eleanor Cook's inquiry about the special publication from
Newsweek, Inc.:  Since it carries so many disclaimers, I would treat it
  as an incidental receipt rather than as an issue of NEWSWEEK.  Recognizing
  that your serials processing environment is different from ours, and that
  I've not seen the physical issue, this is what I'd do in our environment:

    On the issue record for the issue of NEWSWEEK it accompanied, annotate
      the title & date of the special publ., noting it is NOT in any way an
      issue of NEWSWEEK, and let the staff in the Periodicals Reading Room
      decide what to do with it, since they can decide what kind of use it
      might receive and how much.       -- OR --

   If it appears to be mainly advertising and not much substance, yes, it
      could be discarded.  But I'd prefer the processing in the first
      scenario, given what get can get cited and what the public can & does
      ask for.                          -- OR --

    If it appears to be substantial enough to be a "stand-alone" publication,
      I would send it on to the Acquisitons Dept. as a monograph for bibliogra-
      pher review. (I'm guessing the "Fall/Winter 1991" isn't a coverage date,
      but rather a publication date, given the nature of the publ. as you've
      described it.)

Hope this is of some assistance; with so many "special issues" and supplements
  (some bonifide and some just junk) being generated as "come-withs" for so
  many magazines & journals these days, it not only generates more pieces to
  process, but also innumerable additional individual decisions over the course
  of the normal serials processing day/week.

E. Gaele Gillespie   Asst. Head, Serials     University of Kansas Libraries
(913)864-3535    e-mail (BITNET): GGILLESP@UKANVM   Lawrence, KS 66045-2800