At 04:28 PM 3/19/97 EST, Tara Scholtz wrote:
>A patron came to our department recently with a citation for Newsweek,
>v. 129 no. 1.
>
>We looked through the double issue (V. 128 no. 27) and the article
>wasn't in there.  Nor was it in subsequent issues.
>
>Is there such a creature as v. 129 no. 1 for Newsweek at all?  Has
>anyone ever received it?  A quick glance in Uncover just says "not
>received"...but it does have a space for it.

Tara, what is the citation?  I just looked in Expanded Academic ASAP, and
there were no references from a v. 129, no. 1 in there.  It went (going
backwards) from v. 129, no. 29 to v. 128, no. 27.  If you provide the
citation, we can figure out what issue the article is actually in.

I have been noticing an increasing trend for journals to combine the last
number of a volume with the first number of the next volume, and it is very
disturbing.  Does anyone have any idea of how we can broadcast our extreme
displeasure about this?

Kevin M. Randall
Head, Serials Cataloging Section
Northwestern University Library
Evanston, IL   60208-2300

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